A quality use of medicines program for continuity of care in therapeutics from hospital to community.

Objective: To evaluate adherence to an agreed minimum dataset for patient medication information exchange between hospitals and general practitioners.

Design: Quasi pre-post design with a supplementary post-program comparison group; sequential descriptive surveys of patients following recent discharge from public hospitals; opinion questionnaire for key hospital informants; stakeholder forum to review data and Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) action plans between pre- and post-program surveys.

Participants And Setting: GPs and hospitals from the South East Area Health Service, Sydney.