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dc.contributor.authorWheeler, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorKelly, Fiona
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-10T02:41:08Z
dc.date.available2019-10-10T02:41:08Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0312-8008
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/388242
dc.description.abstractIn response to your article on returning unwanted medicines to pharmacies,1 there is an additional source of wasted medication in nursing homes. These facilities have contracted pharmacies that supply medicines to residents. Most of these pharmacies will not use or pack medicines that they have not dispensed (for economic and protocol reasons). Therefore, when a resident arrives from hospital (new or returning resident) or the community, the medicines they arrive with are incinerated rather than administered to them. Private hospitals in particular dispense medicines in full packs even if a patient is only admitted for one or two days.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNational Prescribing Service Ltd
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/reducing-medicine-waste-in-aged-care
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom139
dc.relation.ispartofpageto139
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Prescriber
dc.relation.ispartofvolume41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3214
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsPharmacology & Pharmacy
dc.titleReducing medicine waste in aged care
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC3 - Articles (Letter/ Note)
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWheeler, A; Kelly, F, Reducing medicine waste in aged care, Australian Prescriber, 2018, 41 (5), pp. 139-139
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.date.updated2019-10-10T02:36:12Z
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gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2018. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorWheeler, Amanda
gro.griffith.authorKelly, Fiona S.


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