Why a Multidisciplinary approach
{"Image DocumentName": "Why a Multidisciplinary approach?", "Image ImageDescription": "Limitations identified in \u2018pharmacists only\u2019 approach. Baseline data from June 2010 showed pharmacists could reconcile medications for 35% of patients within 48 hours. (gold standard is within 24 hours) Insufficient pharmacists to complete and sustain medRec. If pharmacist\u2019s sole focus could compromise other medication safety activities. Gaps in medRec process would occur after hours and weekends. Address by targeted intervention of complex patients only? We realised that at POW, this needed to be a multidisciplinary initiative. Baseline data from June 2010 showed pharmacists could reconcile medications for only 35% of patients within 48 hours (gold standard to ensure patient safety is within 24 hours) This data was only collected on aged care wards; rough data showed these units have among the highest levels of med rec performed in the hospital and hospital-wide data was suspected to be even lower. Also, there are not enough pharmacist resources to complete and sustain medication reconciliation at all interfaces. If this was pharmacist\u2019s sole focus other medication safety activities could be compromised. And may leave gap after hours and weekends. An option to address this, could be targeted intervention of complex patients only, but our patient demographic is predominantly elderly, sick and often from a CALD background i.e. all complex and therefore would not make much difference. And so a multidisciplinary team approach was implemented on admission.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}