D M Ashcroft

..The aim of this study was to identify sociotechnical factors that community pharmacy staff encounter in practice, and suggest how these factors might impact on medication safety...

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..The choice of drug treatment for an individual patient is a complex matter. In the case of psoriasis there is a range of treatments available, with varying degrees of efficacy and risk of adverse events...

..To develop, and examine the component structure and internal consistency, of a questionnaire designed to assess safety climate in the community pharmacy setting...

..To determine the efficacy and tolerability of topical pimecrolimus and tacrolimus compared with other treatments for atopic dermatitis...

..To develop a framework that could be used by community pharmacies to self-assess their current level of safety culture maturity, which has high face validity and is both acceptable and feasible for use in this setting...

..Little is known about levels of engagement with the NRLS...

..To examine the types of prescribing, administration and dispensing incidents reported to an on-line incident-reporting scheme and determine the types of healthcare professionals responsible for reporting such incidents...

..To evaluate the efficacy and safety of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) inhibitors in the management of psoriatic arthritis (PsA)...

..To evaluate the impact of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapies on quality of life (QOL) and functional status in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients and study potential predictors for QOL improvements...

..Future research should address the wide disparity of data-collection methods and definitions that bedevils comparison of error rates or meta-analysis of different studies...

..Further rigorous study, seeking potential ways of reducing error, needs to be conducted. Multifactorial interventions across many parts of the system are likely to be required...

..The findings suggest that establishing interprofessional collaboration between GPs and pharmacists is a piecemeal process, with a reliance on goodwill and trust-based relationships...

..To explore and identify the key determinants influencing the uptake of medicines use reviews (MURs), a new community pharmacy service in England...

..The MAS was introduced in 2006, intending to improve health care access by re-directing patients from primary care to community pharmacies...

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..However, to date, there are few reports of the practical use of these therapies outside of the trial setting and, to our knowledge, none from a U.K. cohort of patients with psoriasis...

..Despite this, there is little published evidence relating to dispensing errors and near misses occurring in this setting. This study sought to determine their incidence, nature and causes...

..To determine the prevalence of hospital admissions associated with ADRs and examine differences in prevalence rates between population groups and methods of ADR detection...

..Little is known about how the charge status of the patient may impact on the uptake and prescribing practices of this service...

..The aim of this study was to obtain patient-based costs for treating children with JIA in the UK, in the first year from diagnosis and from the secondary health care payer perspective...

..Importantly, treatment should be tailored to each individual patient depending on concurrent medical problems (which might preclude certain agents), patient choice and acceptance of the risk of adverse effects...

..To examine the extent to which the attributes of a treatment affect patients' choice of treatment for psoriasis and the magnitude and nature of trade-offs between risks and benefits of treatment...

..To evaluate the comparative efficacy and tolerability of naratriptan in the treatment of acute attacks of migraine...

..Current treatments for vitiligo, a common pigmentary disorder affecting around 1% of the world's population, are largely unsatisfactory...

..To identify criteria by which patients can assess the communication skills of pharmacy students...

..Newer, more expensive, 'atypical' antipsychotics have been developed in attempts to address these problems, although debate about the most appropriate role for these medications remains...