Medicine communication from hospital to residential aged care facilities: a cross-sectional survey of aged care facility staff.

Background: Continuity of medicines management can be compromised when older people are transferred between hospital and residential aged care facilities.

Aim: This study explored medicines management practices at facilities during patients' transfer of care from hospital, and staff experiences with medicines information handover from hospitals.

Method: An electronic cross-sectional questionnaire sent to all residential aged care facilities within a metropolitan region in Australia, in February 2022.

Enhancing the quality of medicine handover at hospital discharge: a priority setting workshop.

Background: When a patient is discharged from hospital it is essential that their general practitioner (GPs) and community pharmacist are informed of changes to their medicines. This necessitates effective communication and information-sharing between hospitals and primary care clinicians.

Objective: To identify priority medicine handover issues and solutions to inform the co-design and development of a multifaceted intervention.

Development and Pilot Implementation of a Training Framework to Prepare and Integrate Pharmacy Students into a Multicentre Hospital Research Study.

A unique approach was introduced to integrate pharmacy students into a multicentre patient-centred research project predicting medication related harm (MRH) post-discharge. A training framework was developed to prepare students for research participation and integration. The framework aligned research project tasks with the pharmacists' national competency standards framework.

Quality and readability of online patient information on treatment for erectile dysfunction.

Objectives: To investigate the quality and readability of online patient information on treatment for erectile dysfunction using a Google search.

Materials And Methods: The results of a Google search for "erectile dysfunction treatment" were reviewed. Webpages that contained written information on erectile dysfunction except those containing scientific publications and paywall protected webpages were included in further analysis.

Older patient and family discharge medication communication: A mixed-methods study.

Rationale, Aims, And Objectives: Medication discrepancies place patients discharged from hospital at risk of adverse medication events. Patient and family participation in medication communication may improve medication safety. This study aimed to examine older medical patient and family participation in discharge medication communication.

The impact of a Calderdale Framework designed advanced pharmacy assistant role on inpatient pharmacy services.

Background Pharmacists in Australian hospitals do not see all inpatients. Effectively utilising pharmacy assistants in non-traditional roles may provide an opportunity to increase the number of patients seen by pharmacists. Objective To implement a Calderdale Framework designed advanced pharmacy assistant role on an inpatient unit and evaluate the impact of the role on the provision of clinical pharmacy services provided by the pharmacist in an Australian University hospital.

Patient engagement in admission and discharge medication communication: A systematic mixed studies review.

Objectives: To synthesise peer-reviewed research evidence concerning patients' perceptions of how they engage in admission and discharge medication communication, and barriers and enablers to engagement in medication admission and discharge communication.

Design: A systematic mixed studies review.

Data Sources: Two search strategies were undertaken including a bibliographic database search, followed by citation tracking.