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Open AccessFrequency and impact of medication reviews for people aged 65 years or above in UK primary care: an observational study using electronic health records
Medication reviews in primary care provide an opportunity to review and discuss the safety and appropriateness of a person’s medicines. However, there is limited evidence about access to and the impact of rout...
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Open AccessRecruitment to a large scale randomised controlled clinical trial in primary care: the Helicobacter Eradication Aspirin Trial (HEAT)
The Helicobacter Eradication Aspirin Trial (HEAT) is a multicentre, double blind, randomised controlled trial investigating whether Helicobacter (H.) pylori eradication reduces hospitalisation for peptic ulcer bl...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the utilisation of a novel interactive electronic medication safety dashboard in general practice: a mixed methods study
Improving medication safety is a major concern in primary care settings worldwide. The Salford Medication safety dASHboard (SMASH) intervention provided general practices in Salford (Greater Manchester, UK) wi...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Antipsychotic Prescribing to Patients Diagnosed with Dementia Without a Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Context of National Guidance and Drug Safety Warnings: Longitudinal Study in UK General Practice
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Open AccessDevelo** a measure of polypharmacy appropriateness in primary care: systematic review and expert consensus study
Polypharmacy is an increasing challenge for primary care. Although sometimes clinically justified, polypharmacy can be inappropriate, leading to undesirable outcomes. Optimising care for polypharmacy necessita...
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Open AccessCost Effectiveness of Support for People Starting a New Medication for a Long-Term Condition Through Community Pharmacies: An Economic Evaluation of the New Medicine Service (NMS) Compared with Normal Practice
The English community pharmacy New Medicine Service (NMS) significantly increases patient adherence to medicines, compared with normal practice. We examined the cost effectiveness of NMS compared with normal p...
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Open AccessAssessing the impact of the introduction of an electronic hospital discharge system on the completeness and timeliness of discharge communication: a before and after study
Hospital discharge summaries are a key communication tool ensuring continuity of care between primary and secondary care. Incomplete or untimely communication of information increases risk of hospital readmiss...
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Open AccessAntipsychotic Prescribing to Patients Diagnosed with Dementia Without a Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Context of National Guidance and Drug Safety Warnings: Longitudinal Study in UK General Practice
Policy interventions to address inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to older people diagnosed with dementia are commonplace. In the UK, warnings were issued by the Medicines Healthcare products Re...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the implementation and adoption of a technological intervention to improve medication safety in primary care: a realist evaluation
Monitoring for potentially hazardous prescribing is increasingly important to improve medication safety. Healthcare information technology can be used to achieve this aim, for example by providing access to pr...
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Effectiveness of a community pharmacy weight management programme
Background Obesity is a growing problem in England with one quarter of the adult population being obese and around 60 % being overweight or obese. Given the high costs of treating obesity-related...
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Open AccessTools for measuring patient safety in primary care settings using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method
The majority of patient contacts occur in general practice but general practice patient safety has been poorly described and under-researched to date compared to hospital settings. Our objective was to produce...
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Cost Effectiveness of a Pharmacist-Led Information Technology Intervention for Reducing Rates of Clinically Important Errors in Medicines Management in General Practices (PINCER)
We recently showed that a pharmacist-led information technology-based intervention (PINCER) was significantly more effective in reducing medication errors in general practices than providing simple feedback on...
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Open AccessMeeting user needs in national healthcare systems: lessons from early adopter community pharmacists using the electronic prescriptions service
The Electronic Prescription Service release Two (EPS2) is a new national healthcare information and communication technology in England that aims to deliver effective prescription writing, dispensing and reimb...
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Open AccessProtocol for the New Medicine Service Study: a randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation with qualitative appraisal comparing the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the New Medicine Service in community pharmacies in England
Medication non-adherence is considered an important cause of morbidity and mortality in primary care. This study aims to determine the effectiveness, cost effectiveness and acceptability of a complex intervent...
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How Do Patients Contribute to Signal Detection?
In 2005, spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to the UK’s Yellow Card Scheme (YCS) was extended to include patient reports. Here, we investigate the potential pharmacovigilance impact of pati...
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Open AccessThe socio-technical organisation of community pharmacies as a factor in the Electronic Prescription Service Release Two implementation: a qualitative study
The introduction of a new method of transmitting prescriptions from general practices to community pharmacies in England (Electronic Prescription Service Release 2 (EPS2)) has generated debate on how it will c...
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How Patient Reporters Identify Adverse Drug Reactions
Background: Direct reporting of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to authorities is increasing, but questions remain about how patients identify suspected ADRs and their ability to distingu...
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Open AccessErratum to: Protocol for the PINCER trial: a cluster randomised trial comparing the effectiveness of a pharmacist-led IT-based intervention with simple feedback in reducing rates of clinically important errors in medicines management in general practices
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Open AccessComparing the performance of the EQ-5D and SF-6D when measuring the benefits of alleviating knee pain
To assess the practicality, validity and responsiveness of using each of two utility measures (the EQ-5D and SF-6D) to measure the benefits of alleviating knee pain.
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Open AccessProtocol for the PINCER trial: a cluster randomised trial comparing the effectiveness of a pharmacist-led IT-based intervention with simple feedback in reducing rates of clinically important errors in medicines management in general practices
Medication errors are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in primary care.
