Journal reading
Medication management on sick days
Patients may be susceptible to adverse drug events during acute illness due to comorbidities or medicine use.
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Cost: free
Acute illness should prompt careful monitoring or dose adjustment in patients prescribed certain medicines.
Tom N Lea-Henry, Jonathan Baird-Gunning, Elizabeth Petzel, Darren M Roberts Aust Prescr 2017;40:168-73
Accreditation
This activity should take approximately 1 hour to complete. It can be included in a pharmacist’s CPD Plan for either one Group 1 credit or, on successful completion of the assessment activity, two Group 2 credits. Pharmacists should self-record this activity for CPD purposes.
Pharmacy Competency Standards
1.6 Contribute to continuous improvement in quality and safety
3.1 Develop a patient-centred, culturally responsive approach to medication management
3.3 Monitor and evaluate medication management
About
This activity has been designed to take around 1 hour to complete - this is based on reading the article from an issue of Australian Prescriber and completing a quiz. You will be provided with immediate feedback on your answers and a certificate of completion will be available for you to download for self-reporting purposes.
Learning objectives
- Understand how acute illness can affect pharmacokinetics and lead to adverse drug events.
- Recognise when a patient may be at risk of an adverse drug event during acute illness.
- Identify which drugs may need dose adjusting during an acute illness.
- Recognise adverse drug events during an acute illness.
- Define when increased monitoring may be required.