This article summarizes existing national-level approaches to assessing prescribing competence, provides a systematic review of current literature, indicates the frequency of various methodologies, and make recommendations to promote and extend existing practice. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study aimed to assess the frequency of dosing inconsistencies in prescription data and the effect of four dosing assumption strategies on adherence estimates for antipsychotic treatment. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study evaluates the time course of pain and craving and objective experience of pain as a function of the last methadone dose. Preliminary findings highlight the potential for increased risks after even a short delay in receiving a methadone dose. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Despite efforts, in-hospital prescribing errors and related harm still occur, necessitating an innovative approach. We therefore propose a novel approach, in-hospital pharmacotherapeutic stewardship (IPS). To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine whether maternal exposure to folate antagonists is associated with increased rates of congenital heart disease in offspring. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The aim of this study was to systematically review whether concurrent treatment with an SSRI and low-dose ASA increases the risk of bleeding compared with treatment with an SSRI alone or ASA alone. Open access article - no login required.
This editorial looks at therapeutic drugs for gout. Although various therapies are available for gout treatment, the target of healing gout is often not achieved. Gout treatment often requires long-term medication, drug safety requires special attention. Open access article - no login required.
The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between adherence assessed with a Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) versus pill count, MTX-polyglutamate (PG) concentration and Compliance-Questionnaire-Rheumatology (CQR) in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Our study investigated the association between patients’ willingness to have medications deprescribed and medication adherence. This longitudinal sub-study took place in Swiss primary care settings. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The aim of this study was to analyse sex-specific differences in ADR-drug combinations which required hospitalisation based on two different datasets. Open access article - no login required.
This review serves as an introduction to AI for the clinical pharmacologist, highlighting current applications, aspects of model development and issues surrounding evaluation and deployment. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The present work aims to provide a descriptive and comprehensive overview of the currently utilized PIs documentation and classification tools contributing to increased evidence systematization. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The United Kingdom (UK) Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) is a 2-hour online assessment of prescribing competence. This study describes the academic characteristics and performance of the assessment; longitudinal performance of candidates and schools; stakeholder feedback; and surrogate markers of prescribing safety in UK healthcare practice. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Why you should read this article:
To recognise how comorbidities in older people, including frailty, increase the risk of polypharmacy.
To increase your awareness of the burden of polypharmacy for patients and healthcare services.
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The aim of this umbrella review was to identify tools and guidelines to aid the deprescribing process of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM), evaluate development and validation methods, and describe evidence levels for medication inclusion. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This article evaluates the performance of chat generative pre-trained transformer (ChatGPT) in key domains of clinical pharmacy practice, including prescription review, patient medication education, adverse drug reaction (ADR) recognition, ADR causality assessment, and drug counselling. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This systematic literature review investigated how often the unintended impact of regulatory interventions was considered in publications of studies investigating pharmacovigilance regulatory interventions in Europe. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study suggests that ADEs post hospital discharge can be linked with identifiable medication clusters. This information may help clinicians and researchers better understand patient populations that are more or less likely to benefit from peri-hospital discharge interventions aimed at reducing ADEs. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Old age and glucocorticoid (GC) use increase the susceptibility to infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Accordingly, we investigated whether GC discontinuation reduces the incidence of infection in older adults with RA and analyzed factors associated with GC discontinuation. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Deprescribing aims to address the problem of medication overuse in older adults. We aimed to describe the categories of trials included in recent systematic reviews, and to make recommendations for future research. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.