Pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacy practice
The overall aim of our research is to achieve the most favourable benefit – risk balance for use of medicines. To this end, we evaluate drug use and safety in large populations in clinical practice, investigate new pharmaceutical services and roles for pharmacists and we explore how decisions about medicines are shared, and communicated, in practice. We also use pharmaceutical sciences to answer questions from practice. In this way, our research ranges from a population level down to research at the individual patient consultation.
Thus far, populations of special interest in our research have included people with rheumatic disorders, cancer, heart disease, mental disorders, pregnant women, children, older people, people with a drug addiction as well as pharmacists, GPs, other health care professionals and pharmacy students. In many of our studies, we collaborate with national and overseas institutions to ensure high quality research with maximum clinical impact.
Current project in this theme include:
Drug safety
- Medicines in pregnancy
- Medicines in diabetes
- Medicines in asthma
- Vaccine safety
- Chemoprevention of colorectal cancer
- Methods development for pharmacoepidemiology
Disease treatment and epidemiology
- Osteocare – treatment & disease progression in osteoarthritis
- Diabetes – treatment & disease progression in diabetes
Drug addiction
- Developing new needle exchange supplies equipment
- Study of the adulterants in crack cocaine
- Investigation into the effectiveness of crack pipes
Implementing research findings in practice
- How do different healthcare providers communicate about medicines?
- Measuring the quality of pharmaceutical services by community pharmacies and dispensing doctor practices
- The evaluation and prevention of medication errors in hospitals
- Teaching research in the undergraduate programme
- Psychological theory applied to pharmacy practice
- Introducing pharmaceutical care within community pharmacy in Sudan
- Use of guidelines for prescribing decisions in Sudan and the role of hospital pharmacists
Members
- Prof Corrine de Vries (Lead)
- Dr Lynette James - Dispensing errors and medicines safety; medication errors; safety of prescribing and administration: impact of workload on errors; automated dispensing systems and strategies for preventing errors
- Dr Anita McGrogan
- Dr Philip Rogers
- Dr Jenny Scott - Evidence based harm reduction; pharmaceutical care of drug misusers; pharmaceutical care in developing countries; clinical ethics in practice
- Dr Millicent Stone
- Dr Jane Sutton - Occupational psychology; job design and job satisfaction; the role of the pharmacist; organizational culture; human factors and dispensing errors; research in pharmacy; communications skills
- Dr Andrea Taylor
- Dr Denise Taylor - Use of mental health medicines and their related outcomes on individuals, especially those with dementia and in older people
- Prof Marjorie Weiss - Communication and consultation skills; pharmacist prescribing; patient medicine-taking
