MUPM: Medication Use Processes Matrix

Submitted by National Center... on Nov 4, 2013 - 8:48am CST

Resource Type:

Tool

The Medication Use Processes Matrix (MUMP) was designed to measure how primary health care professionals' perceive their own and others’ contributions to medication-related processes.

This is a 22-item tool with a 5-point scale used to provide a description of medication-related processes in primary care. The tool has 5 subscales: diagnostic and prescribing, monitoring, administrative and documentation and medication review.

Reference	Farrell, B., Pottie, K., Woodend, K., Yao, V. H., Kennie, N., Sellors, C., Martin, C., and Dolovich, L. (2008). Developing a tool to measure contributions to medication‐related processes in family practice. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 22(1), 17‐29. PLEASE NOTE: Only those with paid subscriptions to the Informa Healthcare database may access the full text of this copyright-protected article. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.
Tool Description	This is a 22-item tool with a 5-point scale used to provide a description of medication-related processes in primary care. The tool has 5 subscales: diagnostic and prescribing, monitoring, administrative and documentation and medication review (Farrel et al., 2008).
Country	Canada
Setting	Family Practice Clinics
Professions	All Phases: Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Admistration
Sample	91 participants from 5 professions
Subscale(s) & Psychometrics	diagnostic & prescribing	See below
	monitoring	See below
	administrative & documentation	See below
	education	See below
	medication review	See below
	Internal consistency Cronbach’s α Overall tool = .97, 5 subscales: Diagnosis & prescribing = .96, Monitoring = .81, Administrative/documentation = .84, Education = .85, Medication review = .89, Test-retest reliability: intra-class coefficient (ICC>.80). Content validity and construct validity tested and reported
Contact	bfarrell@bruyere.org