A scoping study on medication management issues in a rural community in Australia identified opportunities for sessional services involving pharmacists [ 8, 16].
This study addresses the medication management issues faced by seniors with chronic illnesses, their family, caregivers, and paid providers within publicly funded home care programs.
CARAT will then quantify the patient's estimated risk of stroke versus bleeding, flag pertinent medication management issues, and generate a recommendation for therapy (warfarin, aspirin, none, other).
What medication management issues do seniors with chronic illness, their family members, caregivers, and paid providers identify within publicly funded home care programs in Alberta (AB), Ontario (ON), Quebec (QC) and Nova Scotia (NS), Canada?
Specifically, this role in the present study alleviated the demand on the hospital pharmacists by having many of the team's queries regarding medications or medication management issues answered by the Project Pharmacist.
This study addresses the medication management issues faced by seniors with chronic illnesses, their family, caregivers, and paid providers within Canadian publicly funded home care programs in Alberta (AB), Ontario (ON), Quebec (QC) and Nova Scotia (NS).
However, PRN range opioid orders have recently come under scrutiny as a source of confusion and as a medication management safety issue.
GPs cited issues relating to medication management and legal issues more frequently than RCF staff.
We have addressed the issue of medication management systems in a Special Issue of Pharmacy Paediatrics, published recently in the online journal, Pharmacy, at mdpi.com (Parrish & Cernak 2015).
Patients' descriptions of the GP's role varied, and included medication management, management of psychosocial issues, and provision of treatment advice.
A number of studies have identified that medication management is an important issue which urgently needs to be addressed if the progression of chronic disease and all the associated complications are to be slowed [ 10, 17– 17].
