Using electronic admission data to monitor temporal trends in local medication use: Experience from an Australian tertiary teaching hospital.

ABSTRACT: Background and aims: Medication usage varies according to prescribing behavior, professional recommendations, and the introduction of new drugs. Local surveillance of medication usage may be useful for understanding and comparing prescribing practices by healthcare providers, particularly in countries such as Australia that are in the process of enhancing nationwide data linkage programs. We sought to investigate the utility of electronic hospital admission data to investigate local trends in medication use, to determine similarities and differences with other Australian studies, and to identify areas for targeted interventions. Methods: We performed a retrospective longitudinal analysis using combined data from a hospital admissions administrative dataset from a large tertia

SUBMITTER: Woodman RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614045 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature