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Title: Impact of medicine shortages on hospital practice: role of a multidisciplinary medicine shortages team
Austin Authors: Harris, David;Ho, Lisa;Taylor, Simone E 
Affiliation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Pharmacy
Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Issue Date: 15-Jul-2024
Date: 2024
Publication information: International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy 2024-07-15
Abstract: Medicine shortages are an increasing issue, with broad public health implications for patients, health professionals and institutions. Despite national notification mechanisms involving sponsors and national regulators (e.g. Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration), shortages continue to be a significant workload in hospitals, particularly for pharmacy staff. In this article, we describe the implications of medicine shortages and a team approach to their management in an Australian public hospital. The medicine shortages team comprises senior pharmacists, a pharmacy technician, and a purchasing officer, in consultation with medical staff. A 10 week audit recorded 34 medicine shortages and/or discontinuations, comprising 49 usually stocked products. Shortages were more quickly identified by the purchasing officer using established relationships with suppliers, rather than relying on sponsor or government communication. Having a team systematically dealing with these shortages enables expertise in supply chains, finances, therapeutics, and medicine safety to be shared, to identify optimal interventions to mitigate patient risk.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/35555
DOI: 10.1007/s11096-024-01772-4
ORCID: 0009-0006-8017-0393
0009-0007-8209-2154
0000-0002-0592-518X
Journal: International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Decision support systems
Drug costs
Hospital
Patient safety
Pharmaceutical Preparations/supply & distribution
Pharmacy service
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