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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Medicines optimisation"”.
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Contemporary challenges in clinical pharmacy practice - medicines optimisation and medication adherence
Optimal use of medicines is a vital step to improve the quality of care that patients receive while minimising healthcare costs. One of the top priorities in healthcare systems worldwide is to provide cost-effective healthcare and through this, to optimise healthcare resource utilisation. One of …
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Towards implementation of pharmacogenomic-guided medicines optimisation for older patients in secondary care
… professionals to successfully adopt PGx-guided medicines optimisation, and paves the way for future implementation strategies. The research adopted a convergent parallel design, comprised of a systematic review, secondary data analysis of hospital admissions data for older patients and a …
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Towards implementation of pharmacogenomic-guided medicines optimisation for older patients in secondary care
… professionals to successfully adopt PGx-guided medicines optimisation, and paves the way for future implementation strategies. The research adopted a convergent parallel design, comprised of a systematic review, secondary data analysis of hospital admissions data for older patients and a …
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Pharmacotherapy in older people receiving palliative care in hospice settings: prescribing, deprescribing and medicines optimisation
… a supervised discontinuation of inappropriate medicines. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore prescribing and deprescribing patterns in hospice care settings, to evaluate current deprescribing interventions, to determine deprescribing barriers and enablers from the perspectives of …
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Pharmacist educational interventions for patients with advanced cancer pain living in the community
… an increasing prevalence of this, person-centred medicines optimisation is essential. Aim: To investigate the feasibility of community pharmacist medicines optimisation services for patients living with advanced cancer pain in community settings. Methods: Mixed methods were used, adopting a …
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Pharmacotherapy in frail older patients in acute care settings: medicines utilisation and optimisation
… there is limited evidence on the impact of medicines optimisation and the integration of a pharmacist-led medicines optimisation service on quality of prescribing as well as clinical and humanistic outcomes for this vulnerable population. <br/> <br/>Aim: This research aims to comprehensively …
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Managing risk; how doctors, nurses and pharmacists optimise the use of medicines in acute hospitals in Northern Ireland: a grounded theory study.
Medicines optimisation requires healthcare professionals to work collaboratively to meet the medication needs of patients. A grounded theory was produced which explains how doctors, nurses and pharmacists work to optimise the use of medicines in acute hospital settings in Northern Ireland. …
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The Effectiveness of Pharmacist Interventions in Improving Asthma Control and Quality of Life in Patients with Difficult Asthma
… (PI) comprising asthma review, education, and medicines optimisation from a hospital advanced clinical pharmacist, plus follow-up targeted Medicines Use Review (t-MUR) from community pharmacists. Forty-seven patients completed the study. More interventions were performed in the PI group at …
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An exploration of factors affecting the use of community pharmacy services by South Asians in Leicester
… patients’ health, health seeking behaviour and medicines adherence. The perceptions of members of the South Asian population, general practitioners, and community pharmacists about how these factors are viewed in relation to community pharmacy services were explored in this study. It was …
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A mixed methods exploration of the role of general practice-based pharmacists
… a number of outcomes(e.g. reduced the number of medicines-related problems and improved appropriateness of prescribing). The quantitative cross-sectional study reported that the majority of general practitioners (GPs) had positive views about the role of PBPs and positive attitudes towards …