Professor, Head of Pharmacy Practice
5 West - 3.33
Email: m.weiss@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 386787
Multidisciplinary teams in primary care
Now recruiting!
We are looking for community pharmacists, GPs and practice nurses in the South West to take part in a fascinating study on multidisciplinary teamwork in primary care. Participation involves completing a short survey – it takes about 30mins and as a ‘thank you’ we will send you £10 of shopping vouchers. The survey can be taken online or we can send you a paper copy with a pre-paid return envelope. For further details please see our study website or e-mail our research officer, Lis, at e.b.grey@bath.ac.uk
Prof Marjorie Weiss
Profile
I am interested in the way patients make decisions about taking medicines, how health care professionals’ make decisions about what [and whether] to prescribe and the use of education to change health care professionals’ behaviour.
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Patient Decision-making about taking Medicines
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- Shared decision-making involving decisions about medicines (concordance) and the extent to which this occurs in practice.
- The use of patient decision aids to facilitate patient involvement in decision-making.
- The rationality of patient accounts when deciding not to start anti-hypertensive medication.
- Women’s views on the effect of an increased range of suppliers of emergency contraception.
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Health Care Professionals’ Decision-making
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- Non-clinical factors that influence the decision-making of general practitioners, such as why general practitioners prescribe when it is not clinically necessary.
- How cost to the patient and overall health care costs influence general practitioners’ clinical decisions.
- How pharmacy counter assistants facilitate or hinder over-the-counter medicine sales.
- Nurses’ and doctors’ views of patient expectation for an antibiotic.
- How changes in the health care system have affected the professional status of doctors and pharmacists.
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Use of Education to Change Health Care Professionals’ Behaviour
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- To evaluate the use of educational interventions to improve the way health care professionals communicate with patients.
- Adult learning and innovation in teaching practice as methods of changing health care professional behaviour.
- The appropriateness of different outcome measures to assess the extent to which shared-decision making about medicine decisions has occurred.
Publications
Holmström, A.-R., Airaksinen, M., Weiss, M., Laaksonen, R., Wuliji, T. and Chan, X.H., 2012. National and local medication error reporting systems: a survey of practices in 16 countries. Journal of Patient Safety, 8 (4), pp. 165-176.
Riley, R., Weiss, M. C., Platt, J., Taylor, G., Horrocks, S. and Taylor, A., 2012. A comparison of GP, pharmacist and nurse prescriber responses to patients' emotional cues and concerns in primary care consultations. Patient Education and Counseling, 91 (1), pp. 65-71.
Weiss, M. C., 2011. Diagnostic decision making: the last refuge for general practitioners? Social Science & Medicine, 73 (3), pp. 375-382.
Taylor, D. A. and Weiss, M. C., 2010. Medication issues for people with early dementia. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 18 (Suppl 1), pp. 45-46.
Stupariu, I., Laaksonen, R., Weiss, M. C. and Jones, S., 2010. Self-assessed competence of pharmacy undergraduate students. Pharmacy Practice, 8 (Suppl 1), pp. 41-42.
Weiss, M. C., Booth, A., Jones, B., Ramjeet, S. and Wong, E., 2010. Use of simulated patients to assess the clinical and communication skills of community pharmacists. Pharmacy World and Science, 32 (3), pp. 353-361.
Weiss, M. C. and Sutton, J., 2009. The changing nature of prescribing: pharmacists as prescribers and challenges to medical dominance. Sociology of Health & Illness, 31 (3), pp. 406-421.
Weiss, M. C., 2009. Concordance. In: Winfield, A. J., Rees, J. A. and Smith, I., eds. Pharmaceutical Practice. 4th edition. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, pp. 523-532.
Cramer, H., Shaw, A., Wye, L. and Weiss, M., 2009. Over-the-counter advice seeking about complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in community pharmacies and health shops: an ethnographic study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 18 (1), pp. 41-50.
Weiss, M. C. and Peters, T. J., 2008. Measuring shared decision making in the consultation: a comparison of the OPTION and Informed Decision Making instruments. Patient Education and Counseling, 70 (1), pp. 79-86.
Sutton, J. and Weiss, M., 2008. Involving patients as advisors in pharmacy practice research: what are the benefits? International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 16 (4), pp. 231-238.
Baxter, K., Weiss, M. C. and Grand, J. L., 2008. The dynamics of commissioning across organisational and clinical boundaries. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 22 (2), pp. 111-128.
