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Journal articles


These research publications are by NPS staff or have been funded or supported by NPS.

Note: The full text of some articles are only available online with a subscription.


Consumer initiatives to improve medicines use

  • Weekes LM, Davis J, Vaughan K, Kehoe L. Medicines Information for Consumers. Australian Pharmacist. 2006;36:91-92

Evaluation of NPS initiatives

  • New 2009! Pulver LK, Tett SE, Coombes J. The Queensland experience of participation in a national drug use evaluation project, Community-acquired pneumonia – towards improving outcomes nationally(CAPTION). BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2009;9(1):38. (Full text)
  • Mandryk J, Wai A, Mackson JM, Patterson C, Bhasale A, Weekes LM. Evaluating the impact of educational interventions on use of antithrombotics in Australia. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2008;17(2):160-171(Abstract)
  • Reeve JF. Tenni PC. Peterson GM. An electronic prompt in dispensing software to promote clinical interventions by community pharmacists: a randomized controlled trial. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2008;65(3):377-385 (Abstract)
  • Horn FE, Mandryk JA, Mackson JM, Wutzke SE, Weekes LM, Hyndman RJ. Measurement of changes in antihypertensive drug utilisation following primary care educational interventions. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2007;16(3):297–308. (Abstract)
  • Wutzke SE, Artist MA, Kehoe LA, Fletcher M, Mackson JM, Weekes LM. Evaluation of a national programme to reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections: effects on consumer awareness, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour in Australia. Health Promotion International 2007;22(1):53–64.(Abstract/Full text)
  • Beilby J, Wutzke SE, Bowman J, Mackson JM, Weekes LM. Evaluation of a national quality use of medicines service in Australia: an evolving model. J Eval Clin Pract 2006;12:202-17. (Abstract)

Health professional initiatives to improve decisions and practice around medicines use

  • New 2010! Moxey A, Robertson J, Newby D, Hains I, Williamson M, Pearson S-A. Computerized clinical decision support for prescribing: provision does not guarantee uptake. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association;17(1):25-33. (Abstract)
  • New 2009! Brien JE, Reeve J, Sweidan M, Jayasuriya P, Martin J. Drug interaction alerts in dispensing and prescribing software (letter). J Pharm Prac & Res 2009; 39(1) 81-2
  • New 2009! Flanagan BM, Sweidan M, Reeve JF. Room for improvement in drug interaction alerts. Australian Pharmacist 2009; 28(5):435
  • New 2009! Ostini R, Hegney D, Jackson C, Williamson M, Mackson JM, Gurman K, Hall W, Tett SE. Systematic Review of Interventions to Improve Prescribing. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2009;43:502-513.(Abstract)
  • New 2009! Pearson SA, Moxey A, Robertson J, Hains I, Williamson M, Reeve J,Newby D. Do computerised clinical decision support systems for prescribing change practice? A systematic review of the literature (1990-2007). BMC Health Services Research 2009; 9:154 (Abstract/Full text)
  • New 2009! Sweidan M, Reeve JF, Dartnell JGA. Consider the content of drug-drug interaction alerts (letter). Arch Int Med 2009
  • New 2009! Sweidan M, Reeve JF, Brien JE, Jayasuriya P, Martin JH, Vernon GM. Quality of drug interaction alerts in prescribing and dispensing software. MJA 2009; 190 (5): 251-254 (Abstract)
  • Buchan HH, Phillips SM, Weekes LM, Mackson JM, Boyden AN, Tonkin AM. Chronic heart failure: time to optimise methods of diagnosis in the community. Med J Aust 2006;184:423-4 (Abstract) (Full text)
  • Sweidan M, Reeve JF. Deficiencies in drug interaction information (letter). Med J Aust 2007; 186(9):483 (Full text)
  • Hood SG, Bereznicki L, Dunt D, Jackson S, Lowe A, Mackson J, Phillips S, Pirkis J and Taylor S (2006). Interventions to improve evidence-based prescribing for heart failure. (Protocol) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 3. Art. No.: CD006091. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006091(Abstract)
  • Hunt S, Green G, Stuart M. Quality Use of Medicines and Nurses. Collegian 2006;12:3.
  • Weekes LM, Higgins G. Pharmacy self audits: NPS update. Australian Pharmacist 2006;25:120-121
  • McIntosh KA. CAPTION (Community-Acquired Pneumonia): towards improving outcomes nationally project. Fiji Med J 2005;24:31-34.
  • McIntosh KA, Jamshidi N, Maxwell DJ, Kaye KI, Easton KL, Stanton LA, et al. Optimising community-acquired pneumonia management. Fiji Med J 2005;24:31-34.
  • Liaw S-T, Kerr S. Computer aided prescribing: Decision support needs to be evidence based. BMJ 2004;328(7455):1566

Health professionals' knowledge, attitudes, awareness and behaviour

  • New 2009! Brown J, Roufogalis, B, Williamson, M. Complementary medicines: Hospital pharmacists' attitude, knowledge and information seeking behaviour. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research 2009; 39(4):281-285.(Abstract)
  • Ostini R, Hegney D, Mackson JM, et al. Why is the use of clopidogrel increasing rapidly in Australia? An exploration of geographical location, age, sex and cardiac stenting rates as possible influences on clopidogrel use. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2008;17(11):1077-1090(Abstract)
  • O'Riordan S, Mackson J, Weekes L. Self-reported prescribing for hypertension in general practice. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 2008;33;483-488.(Abstract)
  • Reeve JF, Mackson JM, Sweidan M, Williamson M. The effect of advertising in clinical software on general practitioners’ prescribing behaviour (letter). Med J Aust 2008; 189(2):85 (Full text)
  • Tobin L, de Almedia Neto AC, Wutzke S, et al. Influences on the prescribing of new drugs. Aust Fam Physician 2008;37(1-2):78-80 (Full text)
  • Mandryk JA, Mackson JM, Horn FE, Wutzke SE, Badcock C-A, Hyndman RJ, et al. Measuring change in prescription drug utilization in Australia. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2006;15:477-484 (Abstract)
  • Maxwell DJ, McIntosh KA, Pulver LK, Easton KL, Kaye K, Tett S, et al. Empiric management of community-acquired pneumonia in Australian emergency departments. Med J Aust 2005;183:520-524 (Abstract)(Full text)
  • Florin THJ, Kerr SJ, Mant A, Horn FE, McGeechan K, Sayer GP, et al. Lessons from early large-scale adoption of celecoxib and rofecoxib by Australian general practitioners. Med J Aust 2004;180:310-311(Abstract)(Full text)
  • Maxwell DJ, Easton KA. Community-acquired pneumonia. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research 2004;34:212-17.
  • Ahearn MD, Kerr SJ. General practitioners' perceptions of the pharmaceutical decision-support tools in their prescribing software. Med J Aust 2003;179:34-7. (Abstract)(Full text)
  • Kerr SJ, Mant A, Horn FE, McGeechan K, Sayer GP. Lessons from early large-scale adoption of celecoxib and rofecoxib by Australian general practitioners. Med J Aust 2003;179:403-7 (Abstract)(Full text)
  • Patterson CA, Mackson JM, Weekes LM. Antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory-tract infections in primary care. Commun Dis Intell 2003;27 Suppl:S39-41(Abstract)

Health professional student initiatives to improve prescribing decisions

  • Smith A, Tasioulas T, Cockayne N, Misan G, Walker G, Quick G. Construction and evaluation of a web-based interactive prescribing curriculum for senior medical students. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2006;62(6):653-9 (Extract)
  • Smith A, Tasioulas T. Education on prescribing can be improved. BMJ 2002;325(7367):776-777.

Other

  • Weekes LM, Mackson JM, Fitzgerald M, Phillips SR. National Prescribing Service: creating an implementation arm for national medicines policy. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2005;59:112-116.(Abstract)
  • Lewis B, Harvey K, Dartnell J, Shepheard J. Modelling and encoding Therapeutic Guidelines: applying ICD- 10-AM and EAN codes. Health Inf Manag 2004;32:51-58.

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