Maximising Embedded pharmacists in aGed cAre Medication Advisory Committees (MEGA-MAC): implementing Australia’s new Guiding Principles for Medication Management in Residential Aged Care Facilities using a knowledge broker and national quality improvement collaborative intervention.

Not Applicable

Conditions: Polypharmacy
Medication management
Clinical governance
Medication policy development
Public Health - Health service research

Registration Number: ACTRN12624000894594

Lead Sponsor: Monash University

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: ot yet recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 15

Inclusion Criteria

This will be a system-level intervention delivered at the RACF-level. RACFs will be eligible if they have a MAC or commit to establishing a MAC by the commencement of the intervention.

Pharmacists will be eligible if they hold general registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a pharmacist and are willing to commit to the delivery of the intervention.

The health care professional MAC representative will be eligible if they are a MAC chair or another suitable current MAC member, have a health professional background and are willing to commit to the delivery of the intervention.

Exclusion Criteria

This is a RACF-level intervention. This study does not have resident-level exclusion criteria.

RACFs will be ineligible if they don’t have a MAC or don’t commit to establishing a MAC by the commencement of the intervention.

Pharmacists will be ineligible if they do not hold general registration with the AHPRA or are not available to commit to the delivery of the intervention.

The health care professional MAC representative will be ineligible if they do not have a health professional background or are not willing and able to commit to the delivery of the intervention.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in RACF-level concordance with the Guiding Principles post-intervention compared to pre-intervention. [Concordance with the Guiding Principles will be measured using a series of 28 indicators developed for this study. This score will be composed of indicators that measure a mixture of dichotomous and continuous outcomes. Total score will range from 0 to 28. Higher scores will indicate greater concordance with the Guiding Principles. Pre-intervention: -6 months, -3 months, baseline and post-intervention: 3 months, 6 months and 9 months. ]

Secondary Outcome Measures