November 9-11, 2003

Aspen Wye River Conference Center

Wye Woods Building

AGENDA

Sunday, November 9

Main Conference Room

5:00 p.m. Keynote -- Dr. George Lundberg, Editor, Medscape General Medicine

6:15 p.m. Reception in Dining Room

7:00 p.m. Dinner in Dining Room

Monday, November 10

8:00 a.m. Breakfast -- Self-serve buffet in Dining Room

Main Conference Room

9:00 a.m. Welcome -- Linda Golodner, National Consumers League;

Hugh Tilson, Moderator

Introductions -- Participants share for about a minute about the organization they represent and the interest they have in senior outpatient medication safety

9:45a.m. Lessons Learned -- Q & A following each presentation

Lou Diamond -- National Patient Safety Foundation

Reva Winkler – National Quality Forum

Christine Williams -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Continue with presentations and discussion

Tom Clark – American Society of Consultant Pharmacists

Diane Cousins – U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP)

Joshua Metlay – Veterans Administration Medical Center of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Center for Excellence in Patient Safety

Noon Lunch – Buffet in Dining Room

1:00 p.m. Reconvene -- Outpatient Safety Focus Discussion: break into two groups, one focusing on health system changes and the other on consumer actions, to brainstorm and list the system changes and consumer actions that need to take place to make outpatient medication use safer for seniors

3:15 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. Groups report back to the larger group on the lists developed

4:30 p.m. Individual prioritizing of consumer actions and system changes

5:00 p.m. Develop consensus on top consumer actions and system changes

6:30 p.m. Dinner – Sit-down dinner in Dining Room

Tuesday, November 11

7:30 a.m. Breakfast – Self-serve buffet in Dining Room

Main Conference Room

8:30 a.m. Create Action Agenda: Working with the prioritized action agenda, the two groups reconvene to develop one long-term and one short-term project regarding either the system changes or consumer actions, and details on implementation of each project.

10:15 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Reporting back about projects, discussion, next steps

11:45 Lunch – Main Conference Room – Buffet served outside of conference room.

Lunch briefing with government agencies. Representatives from the retreat will brief officials. Officials will respond to the developed action agenda and discuss how agenda and next steps could fit into agencies’ agendas.

Special guests: Christine Williams, Director, Office of Communications and

Knowledge Transfer, AHRQ

Frances Murphy, Deputy Undersecretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs

Kelly Cronin, Senior Advisor, Office of Planning, FDA

Tim Trysla, Policy Advisor, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (invited)

Depart after lunch