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Professor TONY AVERY's Outputs (116)

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).

Protocol for the New Medicine Service Study: a randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation with qualitative appraisal comparing the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the New Medicine Service in community pharmacies in England (2013)
Journal Article
Boyd, M., Waring, J., Barber, N., Mehta, R., Chuter, A., Avery, A., Salema, N.-E., Davies, J., Latif, A., Tanajewski, L., & Elliott, R. A. (2013). Protocol for the New Medicine Service Study: a randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation with qualitative appraisal comparing the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the New Medicine Service in community pharmacies in England. Trials, 14(1), 411. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-411

Background

Medication non-adherence is considered an important cause of morbidity and mortality in primary care. This study aims to determine the effectiveness, cost effectiveness and acceptability of a complex intervention delivered by community... Read More about Protocol for the New Medicine Service Study: a randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation with qualitative appraisal comparing the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the New Medicine Service in community pharmacies in England.

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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

Evaluation of patient reporting of adverse drug reactions to the UK ‘Yellow Card Scheme’: literature review, descriptive and qualitative analyses, and questionnaire surveys (2011)
Book
Avery, A., Anderson, C., Bond, C., Fortnum, H., Gifford, A., Hannaford, P., Hazell, L., Krska, J., Lee, A., McLernon, D., Murphy, E., Shakir, S., & Watson, M. (2011). Evaluation of patient reporting of adverse drug reactions to the UK ‘Yellow Card Scheme’: literature review, descriptive and qualitative analyses, and questionnaire surveys. NIHR HTA. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta15200

Background: The monitoring of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) through pharmacovigilance
is vital to patient safety. Spontaneous reporting of ADRs is one method of
pharmacovigilance, and in the UK this is undertaken through the Yellow Card Scheme
(YC... Read More about Evaluation of patient reporting of adverse drug reactions to the UK ‘Yellow Card Scheme’: literature review, descriptive and qualitative analyses, and questionnaire surveys.

Further challenges to medical dominance? the case of nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, R. J., Bissell, P., Ward, P., Murphy, E., Anderson, C., Avery, T., James, V., Lymn, J., Guillaume, L., Hutchinson, A., & Ratcliffe, J. (2012). Further challenges to medical dominance? the case of nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing. Health, 16(2), 115 - 133. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459310364159

Doctors have traditionally been viewed as the dominant healthcare profession, with the authority to prescribe medicines, but recent non-medical prescribing initiatives have been viewed as possible challenges to such dominance. Using the example of th... Read More about Further challenges to medical dominance? the case of nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing.

An evaluation of a specialist multiagency home support service for older people with dementia using qualitative methods (2007)
Journal Article
Rothera, I., Jones, R., Harwood, R., Avery, A. J., Fisher, K., James, V., Shaw, I., & Waite, J. (2008). An evaluation of a specialist multiagency home support service for older people with dementia using qualitative methods. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(1), 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.1841

Background
Standard home care support for people with dementia has been criticised in statutory inspection reports, and may lead to unnecessary crises, hospital or care home admissions.

Objective
To establish whether a specialist multiagency hom... Read More about An evaluation of a specialist multiagency home support service for older people with dementia using qualitative methods.

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of salicylic acid and cryotherapy for cutaneous warts: an economic decision model (2006)
Book
Thomas, K., Keogh-Brown, M., Chalmers, J., Fordham, R., Holland, R., Armstrong, S., Bachmann, M., Howe, A., Rodgers, S., Avery, A., Harvey, I., & Williams, H. (2006). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of salicylic acid and cryotherapy for cutaneous warts: an economic decision model. NHS R&D HTA Programme. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta10250

Objectives: To estimate the costs of commonly used treatments for cutaneous warts, as well as their health benefits and risk. To create an economic decision model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these treatments, and, as a result, assess whethe... Read More about Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of salicylic acid and cryotherapy for cutaneous warts: an economic decision model.

Health status and assessed need for a cohort of older people admitted to nursing and residential homes. (2003)
Journal Article
Rothera, I., Jones, R., Harwood, R., Avery, A., & Waite, J. (2003). Health status and assessed need for a cohort of older people admitted to nursing and residential homes. Age and Ageing, 32(3), 303–309. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/32.3.303

Objective: 

To investigate dependency and health status of a cohort of older people admitted for long term nursing or residential care and to compare these findings with assessments conducted by social services departments prior to placement.

D... Read More about Health status and assessed need for a cohort of older people admitted to nursing and residential homes..

Randomised controlled trial of short bursts of a potent topical corticosteroid versus prolonged use of a mild preparation for children with mild or moderate atopic eczema (2002)
Journal Article
Thomas, K., Armstrong, S., Avery, A., Li Wan Po, A., O'Neill, C., Young, S., & Williams, H. (2002). Randomised controlled trial of short bursts of a potent topical corticosteroid versus prolonged use of a mild preparation for children with mild or moderate atopic eczema. British medical journal, 324(7340),

Objective To determine whether a three day burst of
a potent corticosteroid is more effective than a mild
preparation used for seven days in children with mild
or moderate atopic eczema.
Design Randomised, double blind, parallel group
study of 1... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of short bursts of a potent topical corticosteroid versus prolonged use of a mild preparation for children with mild or moderate atopic eczema.