Impact of medicine shortages on hospital practice: role of a multidisciplinary medicine shortages team.
Int J Clin Pharm
; 2024 Jul 15.
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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.
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Int J Clin Pharm
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
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