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Content last updated 24/08/2022

Seasonal Focus – Winter

Burden of Care

Deprescribing

https://stage.gcphn.org.au/practice-support/support-for-general-practice/practice-based-population-health-management-program/seasonal-focus-winter/#deprescribing Copied to clipboard

Below information developed using information from RACGP Silver Book

Patient Assessment
- Complete medical and functional history from patient and/or carer
Therapeutic Goals
- Determining goals of care with patient and/or carer
Medication history and correlate
- Obtain complete history of medicines inclusive of prescriptions, over the counter and complementary medicines and match with medical history
Assess medicines
- Optimise medicines with net benefit
- Cease medicines without net benefit
Monitor
- Achieving goals of care and repeat cycle when indicated

Resources

https://stage.gcphn.org.au/practice-support/support-for-general-practice/practice-based-population-health-management-program/seasonal-focus-winter/#resources Copied to clipboard

Primary Health Tasmania – Deprescribing Resources

Medication Management Reviews – Consider DMMR or HMMR to review patients medications

Person Centred Care

Person Centred Care

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Review
- Review current referrals and specialist and allied health appointments with patient and/or carer to assess which ones are necessary or relevant
- Consider burdens such as time, accessibility and cost to patient
Reduce
- Reduce referrals/visits to specialists and allied health if excessive
- Reduce unnecessary tests if appropriate
Coordinate
- Coordinate any relevant tests and/or appointments to make better use of patient time
- Consider patient nurse review using item number 10997

Resources

https://stage.gcphn.org.au/practice-support/support-for-general-practice/practice-based-population-health-management-program/seasonal-focus-winter/#resources Copied to clipboard

Minimally disruptive medicine for patients with complex multimorbidity

Out-of-pocket expenditure by Australian seniors with chronic disease: the effect of specific diseases and morbidity clusters

‘You say treatment, I say hard work’: treatment burden among people with chronic illness and their carers in Australia.

Guide to Deprescribing