The PHARMA-Care Quality Monitoring Program
Establishing the PHARMA-Care quality monitoring program in aged care homes
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.
Project Leader
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)
SAHMRI is located on Kaurna Country. We pay respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We are committed to embracing knowledge and culture as we continue our working journey to incorporate Aboriginal health research across all of our themes and further reconciliation.
Read more"Tirki nguta tappa tangka marninithi"
(Learning and knowledge are the pathway to alter the mind)
- Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O’Brien, Kaurna Elder
