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Research Roundup

Prescribing in patients with diabetes

This article, published in the New Zealand Journal of Primary Healthcare, sought to undertake a review of the literature about the impact of nurse prescribing on the delivery of healthcare services...

Anticipatory prescribing

This article, published in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, is a systematic review of the evidence concerning the anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications in an adult population since...

Prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis therapy

This article, published in the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, sought to understand the knowledge, attitudes and prescribing habits of clinicians in primary care around the prescribing...

Anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation

This study, published in the journal EP Europace, sought to establish a prospective registry looking at the contemporary management of patients with atrial fibrillation by cardiologists, GPs and other...

Rheumatology and prescribing

This article, published in the journal Rheumatology, looked at the newly published guidance by the British Society for Rheumatology. The article outlines the need for the guidance and discusses the...

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...

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...

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...

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