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by pharmacists.
All Webstercare systems offer aged care facility staff and doctors, carers
and patients' 'peace of mind' by improving medication management.
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Don’t Leave Medication to Chance Around one in two older Australians on more than one medication fail to take their medications as prescribed with as many as 140,000 hospital admissions annually thought to be medication related. A recent study conducted by the Victorian Poisons Information Centre, in collaboration with Austin and Melbourne Health, prompted a warning for patients, their parents, and their carers to make sure the correct medication and dosage is being taken.
The chief investigator was Associate Professor David Taylor, Director of Emergency and General Medicine Research at Austin Health. In half the cases in that study, it was the patient who made the error, while in 34.6% it was the parent and 9.4% the carer. Most errors were made in the home (90.7%) and residential care facilities (8.1%).
"One in two older people fail to take their medications as prescribed, meaning they don’t get the life saving benefits from them or suffer unnecessary side effects. And all this is easily preventable," says pharmacist Gerard Stevens of Metropolitan Pharmacy Services, Leichhardt, Sydney.
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