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An ethnographic study of knowledge sharing across the boundaries between care processes, services and organisations: the contributions to ‘safe’ hospital discharge (2014)
Journal Article
Waring, J., Marshall, F., Bishop, S., Sahota, O., Walker, M. F., Currie, G., …Avery, T. J. (2014). An ethnographic study of knowledge sharing across the boundaries between care processes, services and organisations: the contributions to ‘safe’ hospital discharge. Health Services and Delivery Research, 2(29), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr02290

Background Hospital discharge is a vulnerable stage in the patient pathway. Research highlights communication failures and the problems of co-ordination as resulting in delayed, poorly timed and unsafe discharges. The complexity of hospital discha... Read More about An ethnographic study of knowledge sharing across the boundaries between care processes, services and organisations: the contributions to ‘safe’ hospital discharge.

Assessing the safety features of electronic patient medication record systems used in community pharmacies in England (2014)
Journal Article
Ojeleye, O., Avery, A. J., & Boyd, M. J. (2014). Assessing the safety features of electronic patient medication record systems used in community pharmacies in England. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 78(2), 401-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.12347

Aims: To evaluate the ability of electronic patient medication record (ePMR) systems used in community pharmacies in England to detect and alert users about clinical hazards, errors and other safety problems. Methods: Between September 2012 and Nove... Read More about Assessing the safety features of electronic patient medication record systems used in community pharmacies in England.

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.

Rehabilitation aimed at improving outdoor mobility for people after stroke: a multi-centre randomised controlled study (the Getting out of the House Study) (2014)
Journal Article
Logan, P. A., Armstrong, S., Avery, T., Barer, D., Barton, G., Darby, J., …Leighton, M. P. (2014). Rehabilitation aimed at improving outdoor mobility for people after stroke: a multi-centre randomised controlled study (the Getting out of the House Study). Health Technology Assessment, 18(29), 1-73. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta18290

Background: One-third of stroke patients are dependent on others to get outside their homes. This can cause people to become housebound, leading to increased immobility, poor health, isolation and misery. There is some evidence that outdoor mobility... Read More about Rehabilitation aimed at improving outdoor mobility for people after stroke: a multi-centre randomised controlled study (the Getting out of the House Study).

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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).