Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS)

Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS)

The Centre for Medicine Use and Safety conducts multidisciplinary research into preventive, acute and chronic care, optimising medication management and patient safety.

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Our ultimate goal is to optimise the safe and effective use of medicine through multidisciplinary research.

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New research highlights potential overtreatment and undertreatment of diabetes in residential aged care

A new international study led by Monash University has found that residents with type 2 diabetes in residential aged care are potentially being overtreated – or missing out on treatment altogether.
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Prescribe, dispense, dispose: Pharmacists tackle the environmental impacts of health care

A team of pharmacists and pharmacy students from Monash University and the United States have collaborated to highlight the role of pharmacists in reducing healthcare-associated waste, greenhouse emissions and other environmental impacts. The

Monica Jung and Helena Cangadis-Douglass awarded MARC-CMUS PhD Scholarships to address the global priority of opioid misuse

Monash Health pharmacist Monica Jung and Austin Health pharmacist Helena Cangadis-Douglass have been awarded the inaugural Monash Addiction Research Centre (MARC) - Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS) Scholarships for PhD research into safe

Uptake of highly effective female contraception is lower in Victoria and New South Wales compared to other states

A new nationwide study led by Monash University has found that the rate of supply for hormonal long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) in Australia began to plateau from 2015.

World Pharmacists Day 2020

Pharmacists are not just medicines experts, but also the most accessible healthcare providers in the community. They play critical roles in the community, hospitals and other settings by supporting patients to take their medicines safely.

World Patient Safety Day

The vast majority of health care in Australia leads to good health outcomes. However, patients do not always receive the most appropriate care and preventable adverse events can occur. The issue of patient safety has been recognised as both a

Can existing drugs be effectively combined to treat COVID-19?

Leading drug developers publish insights in three prestigious international journals.A team of international researchers including experts from Certara, the Monash University’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cytel and McMaster

New Monash site chronicles contributions of pharmacists during COVID-19

The Monash Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has launched a new website aimed at capturing the wide variety of contributions that

Monash University researchers develop new international consensus principles for medicines management in frail older people

Researchers from the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS) at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) and the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence(CRE) in Frailty and Healthy Ageing have