palliMEDS

The palliMEDS app supports primary care prescribers to provide optimal symptom management to their home-based palliative care adult and paediatric patients in the last few weeks of life.

The app provides evidence-based guidance on prescribing medicines for common terminal symptoms such as pain, nausea and vomiting, breathlessness, seizures, and respiratory secretions.

The prescriber can search by symptom or medicine, use the opioid calculator for conversions, read dosing considerations and symptom and medicine information, and look up TGA-PBS listings.

The palliMEDS app is produced by caring@home, a National Palliative Care Project funded by the Australian Government. The paediatric section was developed with the Quality of Care Collaborative of Australia (QuoCCA).