QUM Checks – eCHOICE Features
MedsCheck
- Facilitates all components of the onsite aged care pharmacist’s medication review (a ‘lite’ version of an RMMR that can be performed by a non-clinical Registered Pharmacists).
- Data interoperability.
- Automatic prompts that support onsite pharmacist MedsCheck interventions to occur in accordance with the care provider’s medication policy and clinical governance framework.
RestraintCheck
- Supports judicious use of chemical restraint via the RestraintCheck algorithm, onsite pharmacist workflows, benchmarking and automated clinical governance alerts and interventions.
PolypharmacyCheck
- Minimises avoidable polypharmacy via the evidence based PolypharmacyCheck algorithm, onsite pharmacist workflows, benchmarking automated clinical governance alerts and interventions.
- Automates the care provider’s obligations under the Mandatory National Quality Indicator Program relating to polypharmacy.
CrushCheck
- Ensuring the appropriate dosing and crushing of medications via a multidisciplinary algorithm that utilises ‘live’ dynamic medication data and person-centred information relevant to each specific resident.
OpioidCheck
- Reinforces safe and effective use of opioids via the OpioidCheck algorithm, onsite pharmacist workflows, benchmarking and automated clinical governance alerts and interventions.
AntimicrobialCheck
- Facilitates appropriate use of antimicrobials via the AntimicrobialCheck algorithm, onsite pharmacist workflows, benchmarking and automated clinical governance alerts and interventions.
AnticholinergicCheck
- Minimises Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden via the evidence based AnticholinergicCheck algorithm, onsite pharmacist workflows, benchmarking and automated clinical governance alerts and interventions.
PsychotropicCheck
- Reduces any over-use of psychotropics via the evidence based PsychotropicCheck algorithm, onsite pharmacist workflows, psychotropic burden benchmarking and automated clinical governance alerts and interventions.
- Automates and facilitates the ACQSC’s Psychotropic Self-Assessment Activity.
- Automates the care provider’s obligations under the Mandatory National Quality Indicator Program relating to antipsychotics.
DeprescribeCheck
- A person-centred and evidence based deprescribing algorithm for multiple medications that guides the multidisciplinary team in pursuing safe and appropriate reductions in a resident’s polypharmacy burden.
