Measurement Tools for QUM

Indicators for QUM in Australian Hospitals

Medication safety self assessment for Australian hospitals

Medication safety self assessment for antithrombotic therapy in Australian hospitals

NSW TAG Groups and Working Parties

Safer Medicines Group

Drug Usage Evaluation Group

High Cost Drugs Working Group

Editorial Committee

NSW TAG Projects

DMACS

APOP

CAPTION

PIMS

TAG Mail

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About NSW TAG

NSW TAG is an independent, not-for profit association. Our members are clinical pharmacologists, pharmacists and other clinicians from the teaching hospitals of NSW and affiliated academic units.

Our goal is to promote quality use of medicines by sharing unbiased, evidence-based information about drug therapy.

Our objectives are:

• To investigate and evaluate new initiatives in therapeutics

• To support drug and therapeutics committees

• To promote rational, high quality, cost-effective use of medicines in public hospitals and the wider community

NSW TAG has endorsed the following strategies to achieve these objectives:

• To develop consensus statements for the rational use of specific drugs and drug groups

• To collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative drug usage data

• To develop and utilise specific strategies to influence prescribing behaviour and provide a counter-balance to industry promotion

• To describe and monitor the activities and decision-making of drug committees to improve equity, to increase transparency and to promote peer review/support

• To assess the impact of new pharmaceuticals on quality of patient care in the hospital system

• To disseminate information to stakeholders and educate identified target groups

• To provide advice on therapeutic matters to NSW Health

• To undertake projects on behalf of NSW Health according to availability of resource

• To conduct and facilitate research pertinent to quality use of medicines

• To facilitate provision of economic analyses and critical appraisal of pharmacoeconomic studies

NSW TAG is funded by the NSW Department of Health.

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Abbreviations

Abbreviations - FAQs

Complementary medicines in public hospitals

Guidelines for GPs:
Back pain, migraine, chronic pain

Life Saving Drugs Register

Pethidine DUE Resource Kit

Resources for Evaluating New Drugs

Decision algorithm

Example forms

Off-label use of medicines

Other guidance

External Links

ADRAC

Australian Health Care Agreements

NPS

NPS: Common colds campaign

NSW Health

PBS Online

VicTAG

VMAC

WA TAG