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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Monash research provides new insights into treatment dynamics in diabetes

New research from Monash University’s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS) has found that nearly one quarter of Australians who initiate common diabetes medications switch or receive additional medications during the first year.
Medicine & health

Monash researchers highlight successful interventions to improve painkiller use and appropriateness in residential aged care facilities

An international study led by Monash University’s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety has investigated the effectiveness of health service interventions to improve analgesic use and appropriateness in residential aged care facilities.
Medicine & health

Monash awarded $2 million to investigate embedding pharmacists in residential aged care facilities

Monash University’s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS) has been awarded $2 million through the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to investigate embedding pharmacists in residential aged care facilities.
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MIPS researchers receive MRFF funding to accelerate discovery research projects

Researchers from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) are leading, or playing an integral role, in a number of projects which have received funding from the Commonwealth Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).
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.
Medicine & health

New study finds that age and frailty considerably impact prescribing strategies for people with Type 2 Diabetes

A new study led by Monash University has - for the first time - investigated how age, frailty and dementia predict hospital discharge prescribing for people with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), with the researchers finding that people aged 80+ are
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How has COVID-19 impacted medication dispensing?

Renowned Monash University data scientist, Professor Dickson Lukose, is teaming up with Monash’s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety (CMUS) to investigate the unintended consequences COVID-19 has had on medication use in Australia.

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 led

International study reaffirms cardiovascular benefits associated with medication used to treat type 2 diabetes

A large-scale international study published in prestigious journal The Lancet, Diabetes & Endocrinology, has provided further support for the cardiovascular benefits associated with the newest group of oral medications used to treat type 2