Supplement: Pharmacy Practice Research

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Abstracts of papers presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Glasgow, 23-26 September 2001.

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R5

Satisfaction with information and its relationship with adherence in patients with chronic pain
P. Kendrew, F. Ward, D. Buick, D. Wright, R. Horne

R6

Testing two methods of presenting side effect risk information about common medicines
P. Knapp, D. C. Berry, D. K. Raynor

R7

From compliance to concordance: meeting the needs of patients?
P. Bissell, C. May, P. Noyce

R8

Identification of psychosocial factors which influence patient adherence with antihypertensive medication
C. Lennon, C. M. Hughes, G. D. Johnston, J. C. McElnay

R9

The association of psychosocial and diabetes factors to diabetes knowledge
M. T, McClean, J. C. McElnay, W. J. Andrews

R10

Using community pharmacies to evaluate the safety of a prescription only medicine in an OTC environment: a unique method in Europe
I. A. Gibb, K. Miller, J. C. Veltri, B. A. Page, A. Charlesworth, N. Kellett

R11

Analysis of income from prescription charges
R. Walker

R12

Educational strategies to promote evidence based community pharmacy practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial
M. C. Watson, C. M. Bond, J. M. Grimshaw, J. Mollison, A. Ludbrook

R13

Factors influencing community pharmacist participation in clinical audit: A qualitative study of barriers and drivers of change
F. MacRae, M. Bennie, R. M. Parr, J. R. Johnson

R14

Non-dispensing of NHS prescriptions in community pharmacies
E. I. Schafheutle, E. M. Seston, K. Hassell, P. R. Noyce, M. Nicolson

R15

SIGN guidelines and the management of sore throat in community pharmacy
A. Campbell, E. M. McGovern, H. Millar, S. M. Bryson

R16

Variation in the management of PONV and pain in day case surgery: implications for evidence-based practice
K. Payne, R. Elliott, G. McHugh, E. Moore

R17

Adherence to national recommendations on antibiotic policies and impact on prescribing in an NHS region
H. E. Seymour, S. L. Brent, K. Snider, V. A. Hollyoak, J. M. Smith

R18

Pharmaceutical information exchange between primary and secondary health care professionals and cancer patients
J. C. Scanlan

R19

Pharmacists’ characteristics and their views of physician-assisted death
E. Hackett, S.-A. Francis

R20

Implementation of statin prescribing guidelines: a cost effectiveness analysis
J. D. Morgan, D. J. Wright, H. Chrystyn

R21

Structured medication checking workshops: students attitudes and performance
P. M. Rutter, D. Brown, J. C. Portlock

R22

Can automated dispensing decrease prescription turn-around time and alter staff work patterns?
P. M. Rutter, D. Brown, J. C. Portlock

R23

Poor correlation between predicted ideal and prescribed digoxin dose: a community-based pharmacokinetic study in the elderly
K. Holden, W. Sheldon, P. Earle, A. Dawson, J. Frater

R24

A comparative study of pharmacist and GP management of anticoagulant therapy following deviation from the target international normalised ratio
K. Holden, J. Holden

R25

Medicines management and the individual patient
C. Morecroft, J. Cantrill, M. Tully, M. Crossley

R26

A randomised controlled study to quantify the benefits of community pharmacist interventions on the prescribing of cardiovascular drugs in general practice
A. Fish, E. Antonazzo, J. P. Reid, C. M. Bond, T. H. Porteous, T. Scott

R27

A search for socio-economic influences in behaviour and attitudes to medicines available for self-medication and NHS prescriptions
B. J. Johnson, A. Muir, S. A. Hudson

R28

Working alongside nursing staff to review medication in nursing homes
J. Hall, D. R. Mottram, C. Cairns

R29

Laxative prescribing during pregnancy in primary care
A. Offia, R. Walker

R30

Continuation of treatment of drug misusers between primary and secondary care in the South West
C. Bolton, K. Gamble, K. Heer, D. Kalher, R. Mehta, J. Scott

R31

A novel approach for teaching aseptic processing to pharmacy undergraduates
C. Abbot

R32

Effect of pharmaceutical pre-assessment on post-operative interventions
L. Harris, P. A. Walters, C. Costello

R33

Integrating community pharmacy with NHS Direct: evaluation of a pilot scheme
J. Munro, A. O’Cathain, E. Knowles, J. Nicholl

R34

Headache experience and medication use in primary care
H. F. Boardman, E. Thomas, P. R. Croft, D. S. Millson

R35

Patient self-reports of potential adverse drug reactions
J. Krska, N. Jarernsiripornkul, P. A. G. Capps, R. M. E. Richards

R36

Delivering pharmaceutical care: what does it involve?
J. Krska, D. Hansford, D. Jamieson, F. Arris, J. Cromarty

R37

Obtaining accurate patient-specific perioperative anaesthetic costs in orthopaedic anaesthesia
S. Al-Ageel, R. Elliott, P. Noyce

R38

Patient knowledge and acceptability of topical corticosteroid preparation: the role of the pharmacist in patient education
R. Woodford, E. M. Woodford, C. A. Langley, J. F. Marriott, K. A. Wilson

R39

Antibiotic prescribing for lower respiratory tract infection within secondary care
E. M. Woodford, J. F. Marriott, K. A. Wilson, C. A. Langley

R40

A patient-held medication record and a patient medication profile to support the continuity of acute cancer care
J. Kelly, F. Forrest, S. Hudson

R41

Professional integration within health centre pharmacies
J. Jesson, A. Rashid, K. Wilson

R42

Compliance and adherence as pragmatic concepts: a study of TB in rural Pakistan
T. W. Rennie, I. Bates, W. McKelvie

R43

Use of health information touchscreens by community pharmacy users in six local community pharmacies
E. V. Bennett, I. F. Jones

R44

Investigation of community pharmacists’ participation in a local medicines management project
E. V. Bennett, I. F. Jones

R45

Talk-in-interaction in the community pharmacy setting: a conversation analytic approach
D. N. John, W. Housley

R46

Mind the gap: how compliance aids increase the distance between patients and their medicines
J. Nunney, D. K. Raynor

R47

Clinical mediation review by a pharmacist of patients on repeat prescriptions in general practice
D. Petty, A. G. Zermansky, D. K. Raynor, C. J. Lowe, A. Vail, N. Freemantle

R48

Adverse drug reactions: mother talk
M. L. Hughes, C. M. C. Whittlesea, D. K. Luscombe

R49

Responding to red eye
E. M. Seston, M. Nicolson, K. Hassell, J. A. Cantrill, P. R. Noyce

R50

Gender and age influence on prescription and consultation frequency for multiple sclerosis patients
H. L. Tremlett, J. Evans, C. M. Wiles, D. K. Luscombe

R51

Developing clinical pharmacy services to prisoners in Scotland
H. McNulty, L. Braddick, C. Watt, P. Shearin, A. Mitchell

R52

Anonymously reported medication errors: the tip of the iceberg
G. F. Cavell, C. A. Oborne

R53

A pilot project on the impact of a community pharmacy programme providing advice to women initiating HRT therapy
E. M. Scott, J. C. McElnay, A. B. Shirley, K. Steele

R54

Developing an R&D agenda for pharmacy workforce research
K. Hassell, E. M. Seston

R55

Perceptions of CPD within the pharmacy profession
H. M. Bell, T. A. Maguire, C. G. Adair, L. F. McGartland

R56

Supplying emergency hormonal contraception in the pharmacy: the perspectives of service users
C. Anderson, P. Bissell, S. Sharma, R. Sharma

R57

Supplying emergency hormonal contraception through patient group direction: a qualitative study of the view of pharmacists
P. Bissell, C. Anderson, I. Savage, L. Goodyear

R58

A postal survey to assess the view of community pharmacists on the deregulation of emergency hormonal contraception
A. Wearn, M. Gray, P. Gill, M. A. Ewan, P. Sandhu, Z. Rajaei-Dehkordi

R59

The use of sublingual glyceryl trinitrate and aspirin in angina patients and enhancement of coronary heart disease databases
C. Alford, E. M. Grant, C. Johnston, P. McIntyre

R60

Integrating the community pharmacist into the diabetes team: evaluation of a new care model for patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus
J. Wermeille, M. Bennie, I. Brown

R61

Validity and reliability of the kidney disease questionnaire in patients receiving continuous ambulary peritoneal dialysis
C. M. Hughes, A. Al-Ghadeer, M. McClean, J. C. McElnay

R62

Pharmaceutical inspections in nursing and residential homes: an assessment of the recommendations
A. K. Schweizer, N. B. Curry, C. M. Hughes

R63

The impact of hospital antimicrobial policy on the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection
A. H. Schober, J. C. McElnay, M. G. Scott, M. P. Kearney

R64

Attitudes of community pharmacists towards medication error reporting
G. F. Cavell, V. Burgess, C. A. Oborne, R. Williams, S. Colwill

R65

The views of general practitioners on the reuse of patients’ own drugs
K. Salmon, J. Whittam, S. Freeborn

R66

Training needs analysis for pharmacy technicians in Northern Ireland
G. F. Fleming, T. A. Maguire

R67

Compliance, concordance and the revolving door of care: caring for elderly people with mental health problems
D. Harris, C. Anderson

R68

Cost implications of the use of troponin I (cTnI) measurement to diagnose heart conditions
C. Scullin, J. C. McElnay, M. G. Scott, M. Ryan, T. G. Trouton, S. Baird

R69

Do increasing levels of income deprivation have an effect on the prescribing of OTC medications?
D. Evans

R70

Development and validation of an instrument to measure professional self-perception and job satisfaction of Portuguese community pharmacists
A. Cavaco, M. Ayorinde, E. Pentiah, J. P. Sousa Dias, I. Bates

R71

Implementing a system for tackling under-reporting of adverse drug reactions within a district general hospital
I. Andrew, S. Baker, A. Chalmers

R72

Futile and inappropriate prescribing: an assessment of the issue in a series of patients admitted to a specialist palliative care unit
A. Nicholson, I. Andrew, R. Etherington, R. Gamlin, T. Lovel, J. Lloyd

R73

Addressing pharmaceutical and medicines management issues within the cancer network structure
A. Hodgetts, T. Beswick, J. Rimmer, S. Aspley

R74

Identification of the need for pharmaceutical care within the prevention strategy of CHD: a study in acute MI patients
S. Chinwong, F. Reid, S. McGlynn, S. A. Hudson, A. D. Flapan

R75

Does social environment affect arthritis patients’ ability to remain on methotrexate treatment?
A. Bayraktar, S. Hudson, A. Watson, S. Fraser, J. Hunter

R76

Patients’ perspectives on medicines and pharmacy: the view of patients with Type 2 diabetes
E. Douglas, S. Chapman, S. Hudson, K. Paterson, C. Duggan

R77

Polypharmacy and asynchronous prescribing in elderly patients within primary care
D. Clewes, V. Hartzig, C. Langley, J. F. Marriott, K. Wilson

R78

Concordance in Muslim patients in primary care
A. N. Bashir, M. Asif, F. M. Lacey, C. A. Langley, J. F. Marriott, K. A. Wilson

R79

Risk assessment of intravenous dose presentation in secondary care
K. Joshi, E. Graham-Clarke, J. Smith, C. Langley, J. Marriott, K. Wilson

R80

Identification of the pharmaceutical needs of patients with heart failure
M. McGinnes, S. McGlynn, A. Watson

R81

Preliminary investigation of the problems associated with supply of palliative care medicines in primary care
F. Lacey, J. Jesson

R82

Action learning as an improved method for continuing professional development for pharmacists providing women’s health care advice
D. P. McAree, E. M. Scott

R83

Major illness consultations: a mismatch of perceptions
C. J. Morris, J. A. Cantrill, M. C. Weiss

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