Medication safety and electronic decision support publications

Medication safety and electronic decision support publications

Selected publications

  1. Raban MZ, Lind K. Nudging: can letters to GPs reduce antipsychotics in aged care? MJA Insight. 2020; 10 Feb.
  2. Baysari MT, Raban MZ. The safety of computerised prescribing in hospitals. Australian Prescriber. 2019; 42(4):136-8.
  3. Westbrook JI, Lichtner V. Why is measuring the effects of information technology on medication errors so difficult? The Lancet Digital Health; 2019;1(8):PE378-E379
  4. Baysari MT, Zheng WY, Tariq Am, Heywood M, Scott G, Li L, Van Dort BA, Rathnayake K, Day RO, Westbrook JI. An experimental investigation of the impact of alert frequency and relevance on alert dwell time. International Journal of Medical Informatics; 2020;133:104027.
  5. Raban MZ, Gasparini C, Li L, Baysari MT, Westbrook JI. Effectiveness of interventions targeting antibiotic use in long-term aged care facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 2020; 10:e028494.
  6. Gates P, Baysari MT, Gazarian M, Raban MZ, Meyerson S, Westbrook JI. Prevalence of medication errors among paediatric inpatients: systematic review and meta-analysis. DrugSafety. 2019; 42(11):1329-1342.
  7. Gates P, Baysari MT, Mumford V, Raban MZ, Westbrook JI. Standardising the classification of harm associated with medication errors: The Harm Associated with Medication Error Classification (HAMEC). Drug Safety. 2019; 42(8):931-939.
  8. Lichtner V, Baysari MT, Gates P, Dalla-Pozza L, Westbrook JI. Medication safety incidents in paediatric oncology after electronic medication management system implementation. European Journal of Cancer Care. 2019; 28:e13152.
  9. Westbrook JI, Li L, Shah S, Lehnbom E, Prgomet M, Schofield B, Cresswell K, Slee A, Coleman J, McCloughan L, Sheikh A. A cross-country time and motion study to measure the impact of electronic medication management systems on the work of hospital pharmacists in Australia and England. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2019; 129: 253-259.
  10. Lind KE, Raban MZ, Georgiou A, Westbrook JI. NSAID use among residents in 68 residential aged care facilities 2014 to 2017: An analysis of duration, concomitant medication use, and high-risk conditions. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2019; 28(11):1480-1488.
  11. Lind KE, Raban MZ, Georgiou A, Westbrook JI. Duration of antipsychotic medication use by aged care facility residents with dementia. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. 2019; 33(4):331-338.
  12. Lind KE, Gray LC, Raban MZ, Georgiou A, Westbrook JI. Antidementia medication use by aged care residents with dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2019; 34(7):1029-1040.
  13. Raban MZ, Walter SR, Pont LG, Cheung L, Strumpman D, Westbrook JI. The potential impact of an electronic medication management system on safety critical prescribing errors in an emergency department. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research. 2019; 49:108-115.
  14. Pont L, Raban MZ, Jorgensen ML, Georgiou A, Westbrook JI. Leveraging new information technology to monitor medicine use in 71 residential aged care facilities: variation in polypharmacy and antipsychotic use. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2018; 30(10):810-16.
  15. Mumford V, Baysari MT, Kalinin D, Raban MZ, McCullagh C, Karnon J, Westbrook JI. Measuring the financial and productivity burden of paediatric hospitalisation on the wider family network. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2018; 54(9):987-996.
  16. Westbrook JI, Li L, Hooper TD, Raban MZ, Middleton S, Lehnbom EC. Effectiveness of a ‘Do not interrupt’ bundled intervention to reduce interruptions during medication administration: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility study. BMJ quality & safety 2017; 26(9):734-42.
  17. Koyama AK, Maddox CS, Li L, Bucknall T, Westbrook JI. Effectiveness of double checking to reduce medication administration errors: a systematic review. BMJ Qual Saf. 2019.
  18. Baysari MT, Zheng WY, Li L, Westbrook J, Day RO, Hilmer S, Van Dort BA, Hargreaves A, Kennedy P, Monaghan C, Doherty P, Draheim M, Nair L, Samson R. Optimising computerised decision support to transform medication safety and reduce prescriber burden: study protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation of drug-drug interaction alerts. BMJ Open. 2019; 9(8):e026034.
  19. Alexander GL, Georgiou A, Siette J, Madsen R, Livingstone A, Westbrook J, Deroche C. Exploring information technology (IT) sophistication in New South Wales residential aged care facilities. Aust Health Rev. 2019.
  20. Page N, Baysari MT, Westbrook JI. Selection and use of decision support alerts in electronic medication management systems in Australian hospitals: a survey of implementers. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research. 2019; 49(2):142-9.
  21. Westbrook JI, Baysari MT. Nudging hospitals towards evidence-based decision support for medication management. Med J Aust. 2019; 210 Suppl 6:S22-S4.
  22. Baysari MT, Hardie RA, Lake R, Richardson L, McCullagh C, Gardo A, Westbrook J. Longitudinal study of user experiences of a CPOE system in a pediatric hospital. Int J Med Inform. 2018; 109:5-14.
  23. Page N, Baysari MT, Westbrook JI. A systematic review of the effectiveness of interruptive medication prescribing alerts in hospital CPOE systems to change prescriber behavior and improve patient safety. Int J Med Inform. 2017; 105:22-30.
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