Published on in Vol 5, No 2 (2016): Apr-Jun

Using an Electronic Decision Support Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Polypharmacy and Optimize Medicines: Rationale and Methods

Using an Electronic Decision Support Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Polypharmacy and Optimize Medicines: Rationale and Methods

Using an Electronic Decision Support Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Polypharmacy and Optimize Medicines: Rationale and Methods

Amber Young   1 , BPharm,PGCertPharm,PGCertGPP ;   June Tordoff   1 , BPharm (Hons),MPharm,PhD ;   Susan Dovey   2 , MPH,PhD ;   David Reith   3 , PhD,FRACP ;   Hywel Lloyd   2, 4 , MB,ChB ;   Murray Tilyard   2, 4 , BSc,MB ChB,DipObst,MD ;   Alesha Smith   1, 4 , BSc,MSc,PhD

1 New Zealand’s National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2 Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

3 Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

4 Best Practice Advocacy Centre (BPAC), Dunedin, New Zealand

Corresponding Author:

  • Amber Young, BPharm,PGCertPharm,PGCertGPP
  • New Zealand’s National School of Pharmacy
  • University of Otago
  • PO Box 56
  • Dunedin, 9054
  • New Zealand
  • Phone: 64 34797321
  • Fax: 64 3 479 7034
  • Email: amber.young@otago.ac.nz