Proportion of Residents That Have a Concurrent Use of 10 or More Medicines (Including Prescription, Non-Prescription and Complementary)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Residential Aged Care
Country
Australia
Publishing Organisation
Pont et al. (2018)
Type of Quality Indicator
Process
IOM Quality Dimension
Safety
Domain
Medication-Related
Defining Attributes
Definition
Proportion of residents that have a concurrent use of 10 or more medicines (including prescription, non-prescription and complementary)
Numerator
Number of residents that have a concurrent use of ten or more medicines
Denominator
Total number of residents
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Facility care level, geographical remoteness
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Pont, L. G., Raban, M. Z., Jorgensen, M. L., Georgiou, A. & Westbrook, J. I. Leveraging new information technology to monitor medicine use in 71 residential aged care facilities: variation in polypharmacy and antipsychotic use. Int. J. Qual. Health Care 30, 810–816 (2018).
Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
Yes
Upload Date
23 July 2025
Actions
Date Modified 23 July 2025