{"id":11786,"date":"2021-06-15T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11786"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:06:53","slug":"11-7-million-investment-in-research-to-reduce-medication-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/11-7-million-investment-in-research-to-reduce-medication-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"$11.7 million investment in research to reduce medication harm"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Government is investing $11.7 million in medical research for pharmacists to support patients with the safe use of medicines.
\nAll Australians will take some form of medication throughout their lives for a number of reasons, but using medicines are not without risk.
\nThe Pharmaceutical Society of Australia estimates 400,000 people present to emergency departments with medication problems each year, and 250,000 are hospitalised. They believe half of these events could be prevented.
\nThe 2020 Quality, Safety and Effectiveness of Medicine Use and Medicine Intervention by Pharmacists grant recipients tackle some of the common prescription drug issues for at-risk groups.
\nThis includes the growing number of Australians \u2013 more than 1.7 million people \u2013 who aren\u2019t aware they have symptoms of chronic kidney disease (CKD). For this group, some medications are dangerous and can cause toxicity in the kidneys.
\nAs part of this program, University of Sydney researchers will receive almost $1.9 million to pilot a CKD screening program by community pharmacies, to identify and manage patients with the disease.
\nThe University of Sydney will also receive $2.3 million to develop an integrated referral pathway for Australians with osteoporosis, to help decrease the risk of falls by reducing the use of medicines that lead to falls and improve the use of anti-osteoporosis medicines for bone strength.
\nThe outcomes of the research undertaken through the grants will help inform ongoing work to ensure pharmacist fulfil their full scope of practice and could also inform the future Community Pharmacy Agreements.
\nThe grant program is funded through the Australian Government\u2019s Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative, which forms part of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).
\nThe initiative is about supporting innovative approaches to public health challenges, particularly treating and managing chronic and complex diseases and improve the use of medicines.
\nThe Government\u2019s $20 billion MRFF is a long-term, sustainable investment in Australian health and medical research helping to improve lives, build the economy and contribute to the sustainability of the health system.
\nFurther information about the MRFF is available on the\u00a0Department of Health website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Project<\/th>\nRecipient<\/th>\nFunding<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
A Systems approach to enhancing community-based medication review<\/td>\nUniversity of Sydney<\/td>\n$2,432,288<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pharmacy-based screening and quality use of medicines in kidney disease<\/td>\nUniversity of Sydney<\/td>\n$1,894,075<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The ALLIANCE Trial<\/td>\nMonash University<\/td>\n$2,493,400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Safer medicines To reduce falls and fractures for OsteoPorosis (#STOP)<\/td>\nUniversity of Sydney<\/td>\n$2,337,170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Activating pharmacists to reduce medication related problems: ACTMed<\/td>\nGriffith University<\/td>\n$2,498,824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\n$11,655,757<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Government is investing $11.7 million in medical research for pharmacists to support patients with the safe use of medicines. All Australians will take some form of medication throughout their lives for a number of reasons, but using medicines are not without risk. The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia estimates 400,000 people present to emergency … Continue reading “$11.7 million investment in research to reduce medication harm”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}