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23rd May 2014
Brisbane
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The Council of Australian Therapeutic Advisory Groups (CATAG) is an authoritative, expert, consensus-based collaboration of representatives from all Australian State and Territory Therapeutic Advisory Groups or their jurisdictional committee equivalents. Supported by funding from NPS Medicineswise.
CATAG aims to standardise and improve medicines use primarily (but not exclusively) in the hospital sector across Australia through information sharing advice and advocacy activities.
www.catag.org.au
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DTCs make difficult decisions
DTCs have wide variations in functions,
structure and operation
Literature suggests shift in responsibilities of
DTCs
Dynamic nature of Australian Health System
National Safety and Quality Heath Service
Standards
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DEFINITION
A DTC is a multidisciplinary committee with
responsibility for the overall governance of the
medication management system that ensures the
safe and effective use of medicines in their
organisation1
1. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Safety and
Quality Improvement Guide Standard 4: Medication Safety Sydney: ACSQHC;
October 2012
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Aim:
To investigate current activities of Drug and Therapeutics Committees (DTC)
To develop national guiding principles on the roles and responsibilities of DTCs in Australian public hospitals.
Objectives
Provide a framework against which the DTC may review their established practice including;
Scope and Functions
Structure
Operation & Processes
Communication
Resources
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Guiding principles address the importance of clearly defining the scope and functions of a DTC
Provide recommendations for the structure, operation and processes, communication and resources for an effective DTC
Provide a framework against which the DTC may review their established practice
Implementation of the principles will assist health service organisations meet the governance criteria in the National Safety and Quality Heath Service Standards 1 and 4.
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Descriptive literature review
National DTC survey (with Ethics approval)
Survey of current scope of DTC activities
Sent to 149 DTCs
Qualitative interviews
Project team developed draft Guiding Principles
Representative Expert Advisory Group formed to
refine CATAG Guiding Principles for DTCs
External consultation
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PROJECT TEAM
Lisa Pulver
Dr Matthew Pincus
Gillian Sharratt
Ruth Hay
Joel Heeg
Catherine Spiller
Eliana Della Flora
Jane Donnelly
Stephanie Boydell
EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP
Prof Lloyd Sansom (Chair)
Ms Helen Dowling
Ms Margaret Duguid
Sasha Bennett
Dr Jason Armstrong
Mr Luke Christofis
Professor Albert Frauman
Dr Michael McGlynn
Steve Morris
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85 responses representing 79 DTCs (53%)
responses DTCs
ACT 1 1/2 (50%)
NSW 31 31/62 (50%)
NT 1 1/1 (100%)
QLD 13 8/16 (50%)
SA 10 10/10 (100%)
TAS 1 1/1 (100%)
VIC 13 13/41 (32%)
WA 15 14/16 (88%)
Total 85 79/149 (53%)
• Majority of surveys completed by the Chair or
Secretary (72%)
• Majority were hospital based DTCs (65%)
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Key activity
%
Not a key
activity %
Not
undertaken %
Medication safety 82 14 3
Policy and alerts implementation 77 16 7
Formulary (medical) 75 16 8
Policies and guidelines 68 26 5
Non-formulary medicines 62 18 17
Medicine errors 61 25 13
IPU applications 60 23 16
QUM interventions 59 27 10
Monitoring of adverse effects 56 29 14
Antimicrobial stewardship 55 30 13
Developing treatment guidelines 51 38 9
Developing QI plans 48 25 22
Formulary (Nonmedical) 47 23 26
Auditing medicine use/KPIs 44 36 18
Drug budget oversight 44 34 21
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n = 84 %
Safety & Quality / Risk management
/ Medication Safety Standard Group 37 44
Clinical Governance / Advisory /
Reference Committee 34 40
CEO / Regional executive / Director 17 20
Area DTC 16 19
Acute care executive 7 8
Director-General 1 1
Other (please specify) 7 8
Other includes state-wide committees, Director of medical
services, undetermined, other executives.
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SCOPE and FUNCTIONS
1. Each DTC should have oversight of the medicines management system within a hospital, local health district/ network or state and territory
2. DTCs should have clear terms of reference that articulate its position within a hospital, local health district/ network or state and territory its clinical and corporate governance structure.
3. DTC should consider the local environment when defining their functions.
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Most had medical, pharmacy and nursing
representation
Others
Clinical governance
Quality improvement
Consumer representative (7%)
Finance/business manager
Administrator
Mean of 14 committee members
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STRUCTURE
4. DTCs should have formalised reporting
structures to the organisation’s executive
or clinical governance lead.
5. Membership of the DTC should be
multidisciplinary, with a range of expertise
and skills to reflect the functions of the
DTC.
6. DTCs may establish sub-committees to
manage specific tasks.
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n = 75 (%)
Use of patient's own medicine 81%
Medicines access program 76%
Managing the use of medication samples 73%
Controlling the access of pharmaceutical
company representatives and promotional
literature to hospital staff
73%
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OPERATION and PROCESSES
7. Standardised procedures for decision-
making regarding formulary management
need to be defined and applied.
8. Standardised procedures for decision-
making regarding individual patient
requests need to be defined and applied.
9. Standardised processes and documentation
should be implemented by the DTC.
10. DTCs should be both proactive and
responsive to issues arising and develop an
annual work plan.
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20/77 (26%) respondents stated that DTCs measured their own effectiveness
Various methods KPIs
Compliments and complaints
Survey of membership
NIMC, MSSA
Number of drugs approved
Number of non-formulary drugs converted to Formulary
IPU assessment and recommendations
Monitoring of drug errors, adverse reactions, ADR documentation on NIMC
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OPERATION and PROCESSES
11. DTCs should undertake risk assessments
with respect to medicines use and
recommend strategies to mitigate that risk.
12. DTCs should identify and prioritise a
systems improvement plan and assign
responsibilities and timeframes for
completion.
13. DTCs should have monitoring systems in
place to evaluate their own effectiveness.
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n =71 %
Intranet 37 52
Printed material 26 37
Hospital noticeboard 3 4
Targeted emails to staff 54 76
In-service programs 22 31
Circulation of minutes 41 58
The majority of DTCs (66%) communicate with other
hospitals/DTCs/state-wide committees regarding
decision making
Few (11%) DTCs have contacts with Medicare Locals
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COMMUNICATION
14. DTCs should develop a communication
strategy that ensures timely, effective and
appropriate information for the intended
audience.
15. DTCs should promote safe and quality use
of medicines throughout the medicines
management pathway by engaging with
internal and external stakeholders.
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n = 86 %
Financial - budget line to support
DTC’s activities
6 7
Financial - other (e.g. funds for
research)
1 1
Funded staff support (e.g.
secondment)
6 7
Funded administrative support
(e.g. secretarial help)
20 23
None 45 52
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RESOURCES
16. DTCs should be adequately resourced to
undertake their functions and
responsibilities
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Governance structure
Membership Attendance, investment & training
new ways of interacting with consumers
Reactive to proactive
Measurement of effectiveness
Communication
Resources Handle potential conflict among national, regional
and local decision making processes
Manage the relationship between formularies and therapeutic guidelines
Embrace the possibilities of electronic health systems
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A self- assessment tool for DTCs
Signpost to;
Training packages, documentation, information
sources, quality improvement tools.
Next Steps
Follow-up survey of DTCs to determine awareness, usefulness, and utilisation of the resource
Online training resources new technology assessment
critical review