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Last updated: 31 August 2010 - Next update due: 7 September 2010

Research type:

Primary Research (e.g. trial) 

Title (lead author) etc:

Clinical medication review by a pharmacist of patients on repeat prescriptions in general practice: a randomised controlled trial  (Zermansky) 86 pages, Volume 6, number 20

DOI

10.3310/hta6200
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Outputs in journals arising from this project

Project ref:

93/22/09 

Original project title:

Clinical medication review by a pharmacist of patients on repeat prescriptions in general practice 

Chief Investigator:

Dr Arnold Zermansky, Honorary Research Fellow and general practitioner, School of Healthcare Studies, University of Leeds

Start Date:

March 1999  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

August 2002

Cost:

£159,345 

MeSH* index primary terms:

DRUGS-PRESCRIPTION; PHYSICIAN'S-PRACTICE-PATTERNS; PHARMACY; INTERPROFESSIONAL-RELATIONS; FAMILY-PRACTICE (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

HUMAN; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CLINICAL-TRIAL  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

ISRCTN* number:

ISRCTN 77150103 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) 
URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website:
http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN77150103 

NRR* number, if applicable:

N0484035670 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.

Project Protocol:

Project protocol not available

Printed copies of this title despatched:

281 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

Downloads/Views of electronic version from website:

23986 (Figures are cumulative.) Last updated 27th July 2010.

URL of this page:

http://www.hta.ac.uk/1088

Outputs from this project

  • Petty, DR; Zermansky, AG; Raynor, DK; Vail, A; Lowe, CJ; Freemantle, N; Buttress, AD. "No thank you": Why elderly patients declined to participate in a research study. Pharmacy World & Science. 2000 22 (4): 140-146.
  • Lowe, CJ; Petty, DR; Zermansky, AG; Raynor, DK. Development of a methodology for clinical medication review by a pharmacist in general pratice. Pharmacy World of Science 22(4): 121-126.
  • Petty, DR; Zermansky, AG; Lowe, CJ; Raynor, DK. Pharmacist-conducted clinical medication review clinic: consultation generator or saver?. Pharmaceutical Journal 2000; Vol: 265, Number: 7114, R29.
  • Petty, DR; Zermansky, AG; Raynor, DK; Vail, A; Lowe, CJ; Freemantle, N; Buttress, AD. "No thank you": Why elderly patients declined to participate in a research study. Pharmacy World Science 2001; 23(1): 22-27.
  • Petty, DR; Zermansky, AG; Raynor, DK; Lowe, CJ; Vail, A; Freemantle, N. Clinical medication review by a pharmacist of patients on repeat presciptions in general practice. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2001;9(Suppl):R47.
  • Medication reviews by pharmacists are better than those done by GPs. The Pharmaceutical Journal (News summary) Vol: 267, Issue: 7177, Pages: 805-809.
  • Zermansky, AG; Petty, DR; Raynor, DK; Freemantle, N; Vail, A; Lowe, CJ. Randomised controlled trial of clinical medication review by a pharmacist of elderly patients receiving repeat prescriptions in general practice. BMJ; Vol: 323, Issue: 7325, Pages: 1340-1343.
  • Petty, DR; Zermansky, AG; Raynor, DK. Evidence shows medication review by pharmacists point way forward. The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol: 267, Issue: 7178, Pages: 863-864.
  • Petty, DR; Zermansky, AG; Raynor, DK; Lowe, CJ; Freemantle, N; Vail, A. Clinical medication review by a pharmacist of elderly patients on repeat medications in general practice - pharmacist interventions and review outcomes. The International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2002: 10:39-45.
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