All Outputs (10)

Helpful advice and hidden expertize: pharmacy users’ experiences of community pharmacy accessibility (2016)
Journal Article
Lindsey, L., Husband, A., Steed, L., Walton, R., & Todd, A. (2017). Helpful advice and hidden expertize: pharmacy users’ experiences of community pharmacy accessibility. Journal of Public Health, 39(3), 609-615. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw089

Background: In recent years community pharmacies have emerged as strategically important settings to deliver services aimed at promoting public health. In order to develop evidence-based approaches to public health interventions that exploit the uniq... Read More about Helpful advice and hidden expertize: pharmacy users’ experiences of community pharmacy accessibility.

Safety profile of lamotrigine in overdose (2016)
Journal Article
Alibi, A., Todd, A., Husband, A., & Reilly, J. (2016). Safety profile of lamotrigine in overdose. Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, 6(6), 369-381. https://doi.org/10.1177/2045125316656707

Background: Lamotrigine is an anticonvulsant as well as a mood stabilizer. Apart from its established use in the treatment of epilepsy, there has been an expansion of its use in the treatment of mental disorders. Patients with epilepsy as well as tho... Read More about Safety profile of lamotrigine in overdose.

Deprescribing in advanced illness (2016)
Journal Article
Akinbolade, O., Husband, A., Forrest, S., & Todd, A. (2016). Deprescribing in advanced illness. Progress in Palliative Care, 24(5), 268-271. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699260.2016.1192321

Patients with advanced illness such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Parkinson's disease experience acute symptoms and are usually prescribed medications to manage these, alongside drugs to treat other co-morbid, long-term condit... Read More about Deprescribing in advanced illness.

Blood pressure evaluation and review of antihypertensive medication in patients with life limiting illness (2016)
Journal Article
Dewhurst, F., Baker, L., Andrew, I., & Todd, A. (2016). Blood pressure evaluation and review of antihypertensive medication in patients with life limiting illness. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 38(5), 1044-1047. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-016-0327-0

Background Patients with life limiting illness commonly have multiple co-morbidities that require the use of complex, costly pharmacotherapy. One such example is using medications to treat hypertension in life limiting illness. Objective To: (1) asse... Read More about Blood pressure evaluation and review of antihypertensive medication in patients with life limiting illness.

A systematic review and thematic synthesis of patients' experience of medicines adherence (2016)
Journal Article
Rathbone, A., Todd, A., Jamie, K., Bona, M., Banks, L., & Husband, A. (2017). A systematic review and thematic synthesis of patients' experience of medicines adherence. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 13(3), 403-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2016.06.004

Background: Medicines non-adherence continues to be problematic in health care practice. After decades of research, few interventions have a robust evidence-based demonstrating their applicability to improve adherence. Phenomenology has a place withi... Read More about A systematic review and thematic synthesis of patients' experience of medicines adherence.

The effects of public health policies on population health and health inequalities in European welfare states: Protocol for an umbrella review (2016)
Journal Article
Thomson, K., Bambra, C., McNamara, C., Huijits, T., & Todd, A. (2016). The effects of public health policies on population health and health inequalities in European welfare states: Protocol for an umbrella review. Systematic Reviews, 5, Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0235-3

Background: The welfare state is potentially an important macro-level determinant of health that also moderates the extent, and impact, of socio-economic inequalities in exposure to the social determinants of health. The welfare state has three main... Read More about The effects of public health policies on population health and health inequalities in European welfare states: Protocol for an umbrella review.

Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, T., Todd, A., O'Malley, C., Moore, H., Husband, A., Bambra, C., …Summerbell, C. (2016). Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions. Public Health Research, 4(2), 1-162. https://doi.org/10.3310/phr04020

Background: The Department of Health has identified interventions to manage alcohol misuse, smoking and overweight, delivered by community pharmacists, as public health priorities. Objectives: To systematically review the effectiveness of community p... Read More about Community pharmacy interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of community pharmacy-delivered smoking, alcohol and weight management interventions.

Community pharmacy-delivered interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management, including meta-analysis for smoking cessation (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, T., Todd, A., O’Malley, C., Moore, H., Husband, A., Bambra, C., …Summerbell, C. (2016). Community pharmacy-delivered interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management, including meta-analysis for smoking cessation. BMJ Open, 6(2), Article e009828. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009828

Objectives: To systematically review the effectiveness of community pharmacy-delivered interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management. Design: Systematic review and meta-analyses. 10 electronic databases were searched fr... Read More about Community pharmacy-delivered interventions for public health priorities: a systematic review of interventions for alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight management, including meta-analysis for smoking cessation.

‘I don’t think I’d be frightened if the statins went’: a phenomenological qualitative study exploring medicines use in palliative care patients, carers and healthcare professionals (2016)
Journal Article
Todd, A., Holmes, H., Pearson, S., Hughes, C., Andrew, I., Baker, L., & Husband, A. (2016). ‘I don’t think I’d be frightened if the statins went’: a phenomenological qualitative study exploring medicines use in palliative care patients, carers and healthcare professionals. BMC Palliative Care, 15(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-016-0086-7

Background: There is a growing body of evidence suggesting patients with life-limiting illness use medicines inappropriately and unnecessarily. In this context, the perspective of patients, their carers and the healthcare professionals responsible fo... Read More about ‘I don’t think I’d be frightened if the statins went’: a phenomenological qualitative study exploring medicines use in palliative care patients, carers and healthcare professionals.

Inappropriate prescribing of preventative medication in patients with life-limiting illness: a systematic review (2016)
Journal Article
Todd, A., Husband, A., Andrew, I., Pearson, S., Lindsey, L., & Holmes, H. (2017). Inappropriate prescribing of preventative medication in patients with life-limiting illness: a systematic review. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 7(2), 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000941

Objectives To systematically review the literature to examine the methods used to identify inappropriate prescribing of preventative medication in patients with life-limiting illness and to detail the nature of medications prescribed. Methods A syste... Read More about Inappropriate prescribing of preventative medication in patients with life-limiting illness: a systematic review.