Pillar 09

Medication Management

This pillar measures the safety, accuracy, governance, and effectiveness of prescribing, dispensing, administering, and monitoring medications across the care pathway.

Pillar Score
71.2
/100
Developing
VS Last Assessment
2.1 Points
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Pillar Weight
9% of HPI Score
Overview
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Medication Safety 74.5 /100
Good
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Reconciliation 69.8 /100
Fair
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High-Risk Medicines 70.6 (per 1,000 patient days)
Good
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Antimicrobial Stewardship 73.1
Good
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Adverse Drug Event Monitoring 68.7
Fair
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What It Measures
  • Prescribing safety
  • Dispensing accuracy
  • Medication reconciliation
  • Administration safety
  • Monitoring of high-risk medicines
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Adverse drug events
  • Patient medication education
building
Core Sections
Key Indicators
Medication Reconciliation at Admission78%
Medication Reconciliation at Discharge72%
Medication Error Rate4.2 per 1,000 doses
Adverse Drug Events1.7%
High-Risk Medication Incidents0.8%
Pharmacy Intervention Acceptance86%
Antibiotic Review Within Target81%
Prescribing Alert Override Rate18%
Patient Medication Understanding74%
Risk Signals
  • Reconciliation gaps at transfer points
  • Alert fatigue and high override rates
  • Errors with high-risk drugs
  • Incomplete patient counseling
  • Delayed review of antibiotics
  • Inconsistent medication documentation
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Improvement Actions
  • Strengthen medication reconciliation
  • Monitor high-risk medicines closely
  • Improve prescribing decision support
  • Enhance pharmacist-clinician collaboration
  • Expand patient medication education and ADE review
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