The Medicines Management, Keele University, has developed a new online resource designed to assist healthcare professionals in the local development of shared care agreements. The Effective Shared Care Agreement Toolkit seeks to outline clinical and patient management responsibilities and suggest how they can be shared between the secondary care specialist and general practitioner / primary care prescriber.
Acting as a flexible template, the Toolkit is expected to enable users to consider proposed content - key principles, monitoring requirements, dosage and administration, contraindications, interactions, etc. - and tailor it to their local circumstances and requirements. Local agreements can be created and edited by 'dragging and dropping' suggested content into a unique template document. Each template can then be saved online for further review or downloaded to the user's own computer.
The first in a proposed series of templates is for dronedarone, a heart drug. The dronedarone Toolkit is designed to support healthcare professionals in creating agreements aligned to locally agreed policy on the prescribing of dronedarone for atrial fibrillation. The Toolkit is available at www.esca-keele.co.uk and the dronedarone template is available at www.esca-keele.co.uk/dronedarone.
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