Deborah Robertson

Prescribing during pregnancy

This article was published in BMC Medicine, used a retrospective cohort study approach to examine data between 2000 and 2019 (Subramanian et al, 2023). The author's main driver to conduct this...

When was the last time you held an FP10 prescription in hand?

A visit to my GP recently, which required a prescription, led me to ask myself: when was the last time I held a paper FP10 green prescription in my hand? As someone with a long-term condition...

Adverse drug reactions

This piece of original research published in July 2022 aimed to elucidate the burden and associated cost of ADRs, polypharmacy and multimorbidity with a prospective analysis of all medical admissions...

Prescribing in the homeless population

This article, published in the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy aimed to investigate the prescribing of medicines to homeless persons who present to specialist homelessness primary care...

Polypharmacy and the older adult

This review of the literature published in the Journal of Geriatric Oncology aimed to elucidate the scale of the issue in a population of older adult patients with cancer and to discuss the...

Women empowered by new treatment options

Podiatrist's prescribing practice

This paper, published in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, is a review of progress made in independent prescribing in the UK (Fitzpatrick and Borthwick, 2022). Its publication marks the 10-year...

Prescribing in physiotherapy

The aim of this piece of research, published in the Journal of Musculoskeletal Science and Practice (advanced online ahead of October 2022 publication) was to establish how musculoskeletal advanced...

Who can write a fit note in 2022?

Pharmacist prescribers

This original piece of evaluation research, published online in May 2022 in the Journal of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy sought to assess the safety and accuracy of inpatient...

Prescribing in alcohol use disorders

This first article, published in the Irish Medical Journal in January 2022 (Doody et all, 2022), presents the findings of a clinical audit on alcohol detoxification within the National Institute of...

Supporting patients with chronic pain

Prescribing uses of botulinum toxin

This article published in January 2022 in the journal Toxins sought to review the current evidence on Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT/A) concerning its effect on bladder sensation and the potential...

Challenges in prescribing practice

This piece of original research published in the BMJ Open online in January 2022, sought to explore the barriers to and facilitators of reporting detected prescribing errors in a primary care setting...

Prescribing in hypertension

This retrospective cohort analysis published in the Journal of Pharmacy Technology in 2022 aimed to describe prescribing patterns of antihypertensive medications in patients with incident stage 2...