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Exploring safety systems for dispensing in community pharmacies: Focusing on how staff relate to organizational components (2014)
Journal Article
Harvey, J., Avery, A. J., Ashcroft, D., Boyd, M., Phipps, D. L., & Barber, N. (2015). Exploring safety systems for dispensing in community pharmacies: Focusing on how staff relate to organizational components. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 11(2), 216-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2014.06.005

Background: Identifying risk is an important facet of a safety practice in an organization. To identify risk, all components within a system of operation should be considered. In clinical safety practice, a team of people, technologies, procedures an... Read More about Exploring safety systems for dispensing in community pharmacies: Focusing on how staff relate to organizational components.

The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge study (2014)
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Franklin, B. D., Reynolds, M., Sadler, S., Hibberd, R., Avery, A. J., Armstrong, S. J., …Barber, N. (2014). The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 23(8), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002776

Objectives: To compare prevalence and types of dispensing errors and pharmacists’ labelling enhancements, for prescriptions transmitted electronically versus paper prescriptions. Design: Naturalistic stepped wedge study. Setting: 15 English communi... Read More about The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge study.

Cost Effectiveness of a Pharmacist-Led Information Technology Intervention for Reducing Rates of Clinically Important Errors in Medicines Management in General Practices (PINCER) (2014)
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Elliott, R., Putman, K. D., Franklin, M., Annemans, L., Verhaeghe, N., Eden, M., …Avery, A. J. (2014). Cost Effectiveness of a Pharmacist-Led Information Technology Intervention for Reducing Rates of Clinically Important Errors in Medicines Management in General Practices (PINCER). PharmacoEconomics, 32(6), 573-590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-014-0148-8

A qualitative study of community pharmacy perceptions of the Electronic Prescriptions Service in England: Community pharmacy perceptions of EPS (2014)
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Harvey, J., Avery, A. J., & Barber, N. (2014). A qualitative study of community pharmacy perceptions of the Electronic Prescriptions Service in England: Community pharmacy perceptions of EPS. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 22(6), 440-444. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpp.12107

Objectives To explore attitudes and perceptions of early adopters of the Electronic Prescription Service (release two) in England (EPS2). EPS2 is information technology that allows community pharmacies to download and dispense electronically writt... Read More about A qualitative study of community pharmacy perceptions of the Electronic Prescriptions Service in England: Community pharmacy perceptions of EPS.

Description and process evaluation of pharmacists' interventions in a pharmacist-led information technology-enabled multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial for reducing medication errors in general practice (PINCER trial) (2014)
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Howard, R., Rodgers, S., Avery, A., & Sheikh, A. (2014). Description and process evaluation of pharmacists' interventions in a pharmacist-led information technology-enabled multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial for reducing medication errors in general practice (PINCER trial). International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpp.12039

Objective To undertake a process evaluation of pharmacists' recommendations arising in the context of a complex IT-enabled pharmacist-delivered randomised controlled trial (PINCER trial) to reduce the risk of hazardous medicines management in gene... Read More about Description and process evaluation of pharmacists' interventions in a pharmacist-led information technology-enabled multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial for reducing medication errors in general practice (PINCER trial).

The evidence for the effectiveness of safety alerts in electronic patient medication record systems at the point of pharmacy order entry: a systematic review (2013)
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Ojeleye, O., Avery, A., Gupta, V., & Boyd, M. (2013). The evidence for the effectiveness of safety alerts in electronic patient medication record systems at the point of pharmacy order entry: a systematic review. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 13(July), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-13-69

Background: Electronic Patient Medication Record (ePMR) systems have important safety features embedded to alert users about potential clinical hazards and errors. To date, there is no synthesis of evidence about the effectiveness of these safety fea... Read More about The evidence for the effectiveness of safety alerts in electronic patient medication record systems at the point of pharmacy order entry: a systematic review.

Training pharmacists to deliver a complex information technology intervention (PINCER) using the principles of educational outreach and root cause analysis (2013)
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Sadler, S., Rodgers, S., Howard, R., Morris, C. J., & Avery, A. (2014). Training pharmacists to deliver a complex information technology intervention (PINCER) using the principles of educational outreach and root cause analysis. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 22(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpp.12032

Objective To describe the training undertaken by pharmacists employed in a pharmacist-led information technology-based intervention study to reduce medication errors in primary care (PINCER Trial), evaluate pharmacists’ assessment of the training,... Read More about Training pharmacists to deliver a complex information technology intervention (PINCER) using the principles of educational outreach and root cause analysis.

An embedded longitudinal multi-faceted qualitative evaluation of a complex cluster randomized controlled trial aiming to reduce clinically important errors in medicines management in general practice (2012)
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Cresswell, K. M., Sadler, S., Rodgers, S., Avery, A., Cantrill, J., Murray, S. A., & Sheikh, A. (2012). An embedded longitudinal multi-faceted qualitative evaluation of a complex cluster randomized controlled trial aiming to reduce clinically important errors in medicines management in general practice. Trials, 13, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-78