RDGAC grant report : barriers and facilitators to the provision of clinical pharmacy services in aboriginal communities

Australia's indigenous population has significantly poorer health outcomes than the rest of the Australian population. Continuity in medication management, an important step in achieving better health outcomes, requires a number of steps to be accomplished. Clinical pharmacy services such as the provision of medicines information, clinical interventions and medication reviews have been shown to improve the quality use of medicines; yet little is known about the current provision of clinical services to people served by Aboriginal medical services, or about the barriers and facilitators experienced by pharmacists in providing clinical pharmacy services to indigenous Australians.1 page(s