Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc.
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Quality use of medicines

Quality use of medicines (QUM) requires professional knowledge and skills around diagnosis of symptoms, choice of management options including medicines and other alternatives, appropriate monitoring of treatment, all underpinned by good communication with patients to allow shared decision making to occur.
 
Some resources to support QUM include:
 
Electronic Therapeutic Guidelines
Available free online to all ACCHS staff who sign up to the Victorian Clinicians Health Channel.
 
Australian Medicines Handbook
Available free online to all ACCHS staff who sign up to the Victorian Clinicians Health Channel.
 
VACCHO resources
Appropriate antibiotic prescribing - resources and CPD
Prescription medicines with risk of dependence – regulation and resources