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August 2010: Medication review workshop
During the 2010 International Social Pharmacy Workshop (ISPW) in Lisbon, a workshop will be held on "Medication review, the PCNE way". This workshop can be attended on the 26th of August, and starts at 13.45h. For more information see the ISPW web site.
PCNE Working group on medication review
In 2009 a PCNE Working Group on Medication Review was
estabished in Vimeiro, Portugal. The working group is
currently chaired by Prof.Dr. Kurt Hersberger and Dr. Foppe
van Mil.
Medication review is a technique to detect drug-related
problems in the medication of individuals. There can be
several approaches: retrospective, prospective or ad hoc.
Alle approaches have their specific challenges. Which
appraoch can be chosen depends of the available expertise,
and available information. As for the latter, in a hospital
setting the available information usually will differ from
the community setting. The PCNE working group is in the
process of developing pathways, protocols and guidelines
for different types of medication review.
PCNE Working Symposium on medication review 2009: materials on-line
The the definition of medication review, and the
different approaches have been extensively discussed during
an PCNE Working Symposium on Medication in Geneva, on the
Tuesday 3rd November 2009. There were 36 experts present
who discussed definitions, the three types of medication
review and the information that is necessary for performing
medication reviews.
The different abstracts, presentations and reports can now
be retrieved on-line, by clicking here. Additional
information can also be obtained from the professional
secretariat.