Prescribing Guidelines for Optimal Medication Use

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What are Australian regulatory guidelines for prescription medicines (argpm)?

These guidance provide information about specific technical requirements and particular types of medicine. The Australian Regulatory Guidelines for Prescription Medicines (ARGPM) assist applicants and sponsors to register new prescription medicines or vary existing registrations in Australia.

How do I prescribe a medicine?

Medicines are prescribed by active ingredient with or without brand On decision to prescribe, search for and select the medicine according to the software in use. This may involve keying in the first letters of the active ingredient or the originator brand depending how the software is configured.

What is best practice guidance for active ingredient prescribing?

Best practice guidance for active ingredient prescribing is provided to support safe and quality use of medicines. Prescribing using the active ingredient name is safe in the majority of prescribing situations where the branded or unbranded originator and generic or biosimilar medicines are considered therapeutically equivalent.

Do health professionals need a standard approach to prescribing?

The need for, and value of, a consistent and standard approach to prescribing for all health professionals with prescribing rights is therefore ever more prevalent. Adequately preparing health professionals to prescribe within a quality use of medicines framework is essential.

What is good prescribing practice?

Good prescribing practice involves careful and considered diagnosis, clear therapeutic goals, the use of non-drug therapies where suitable, prescribing appropriate types, formulations and amounts of medication, explaining the effects of medications and any risk of dependence, and implementing regular medication reviews.

How do I register a prescription medicine in Australia?

Sponsors may now apply to register a prescription medicine under the provisional approval pathway, priority review pathway or the standard prescription medicines registration pathway. Information about the prescription medicines registration process in Australia. Prescription medicines forms for applicants and sponsors.

What are the National Medicines policy guiding principles?

Under the National Medicines Policy, a series of guiding principles help to promote safe, quality use of medicines and medication management: to achieve continuity in medication management. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care are currently reviewing these guiding principles. prescribing and dispensing PBS medicines.

What Is Prescribing Guidelines

1. https://www.tga.gov.au/resources/resource/guidance/guidelines-prescription-medicines
2. https://www.pbs.gov.au/info/healthpro/explanatory-notes/section1/Section_1_2_Explanatory_Notes
3. https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-12/fact_sheet_-_active_ingredient_prescribing_-_guidance_for_australian_prescribers_0.pdf
4. https://www.health.gov.au/topics/medicines/medication-management-for-health-practitioners
5. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/59001/WHO_DAP_94.11.pdf;sequence=1
6. https://www.racgp.org.au/clinical-resources/clinical-guidelines/key-racgp-guidelines/view-all-racgp-guidelines/drugs-of-dependence/part-a/accountable-prescribing
7. https://www.pharmacyboard.gov.au/News/Professional-Practice-Issues/Pharmacist-Prescribing-FAQ.aspx

Prescribing Guidelines Information

1. https://australianprescriber.tg.org.au/
2. https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/resources
3. https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2018/june/prescribing-new-medicines