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Quality Use of Medicines Alliance 

A growing partnership to achieve QUM 

QUM Connect is a member of the Quality Use of Medicines Alliance, which has been awarded health professional education and consumer health literacy grants by the Australian Government.  

Together with our partners, we are developing and delivering free, high-quality, evidence-based health professional education and consumer health literacy resources and activities. 

Our current QUM programs are: 

  • Antidepressants in older adults (in development)

  • Oral anticoagulants (in development)

Quality Use of Medicines Alliance 

Helping consumers and health professionals make safe and wise decisions about medicines and diagnostics.
Funded by the Australian Government through the Quality Use of Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Pathology Program.

International Society to Improve Use of Medicines (ISIUM)

Supporting global efforts to improve the use of medicines 

ISIUM is an independent nonprofit working to achieve the best use of medicines throughout the world. ISIUM provides a network, think-tank and forum for exploration of ways of knowing about medicines, their best use and their role in society, health and illness.  

QUM Connect developed the proceedings for the last ISIUM Conference held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in October 2023:

Publications & Presentations

Some of our recent publications and presentations 

Dartnell J, Cox D, Dawda P, Hill C. Quality use of medicines: who owns it now? Australian Prescriber [Internet]. 2024 Jun 18;47(3).

Osman R, Dartnell J, Brown S, Clutton K, Barnett S, Fuller A, Funk M, Briant K, Wong L-C, Tatian A, Docking S, O'Connor D, Buchbinder R, McCaffery K, Haynes T, Bonney A, Harland D, Mullan J, Braithwaite C, Wilkinson D. Designing a national education program to support quality use of medicines in atopic dermatitis. Australasian College of Dermatologists 56th Annual Scientific Meeting. 2024. Poster 153.

Ayre J, Bonner C, Gonzalez J, Vaccaro T, Cousins M, McCaffery K, Muscat DM. Integrating consumer perspectives into a large-scale health literacy audit of health information materials: learnings and next steps. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 416 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09434-3