The PHARMA-Care Quality Monitoring Program

This project will develop, validate, implement, cost, and disseminate an innovative national quality framework to support pharmacists to improve medicines use in residential aged care facilities (RACFs).

We will interview stakeholders to understand their needs, synthesise existing quality use of medicines indicators, and establish a co-designed framework.

Agreed quality indicators will be evaluated using novel population-based datasets and implemented in RACFs. Our multidisciplinary team will co-create a national implementation plan with costings to guide rapid translation.

The PHARMA-Care quality monitoring program will equip aged care teams with robust evidence to improve the safe and effective use of medicines and optimise resident outcomes.

PARTNERING INSTITUTIONS

University of South Australia, University of Tasmania, Curtin University, Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmary Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, Australian Patient Safety Foundation Inc, Flinders University, The University of Sydney, University of Adelaide

This project is funded by the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)