E-drug: Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project - Australia
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Dear friends,
Just a note to let you know that there is now a database on quality use of
medicines activities in Australia which is accessible via the World Wide Web.
The site is known as the Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project
To access the website go to:
http://www.qum.health.gov.au/
The database can be found by clicking on the link "Quality Use of Medicines
Mapping Project"
The web pages for the database provide capacity for on-line data entry, user
registration, quick and detailed searching, feedback and project
administration.
The database is limited to Australian projects and currently contains over 700
projects concerning quality use of medicines. Each project includes as a
minimum, a title and details of a contact person. In addition many projects
include an abstract, details of any publications and any quality use of
medicines resources which have been developed.
The database also has a geographical mapping feature, which enables you to
view the location of projects across the country. This feature was developed
to facilitate networking in local areas and also to facilitate policy planning
and implementation.
If you want to search the database, it is accessible through the "browse/search
projects database" link. You can list all the projects on the database or do
a quick search by entering key words and then clicking the "match all" or
"match any" links (this enables "AND" "OR" searching). More detailed searches
can be made by clicking the "detailed search".
The database for the Quality Use of Medicines Mapping project has been designed
to be a publicly available resource for any person interested in or working in
the field of quality use of medicines, enabling them to identify projects which
have been undertaken, other people working in the field and any resources
developed.
The second function of the database is as a mapping tool which can be used by
policy makers, in particular, the Pharmaceutical Health and Rational use of
Medicines (PHARM) Committee and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch of the
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care to facilitate the
implementation of Australia's Policy on the Quality Use of Medicines.
The Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project was commissioned by the
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, in conjunction with the
Pharmaceutical Health and Rational use of Medicines Committee and undertaken to
provide a comprehensive picture of Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) initiatives
occurring in Australia.
If you have any questions or comments please contact me.
Kind regards
Libby Roughead
School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
University of South Australia
North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
South Australia
Australia
Ph: +61 8 8302 2179
Fax: +61 8 8302 2389
E-mail: libby.roughead@unisa.edu.au
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