Department of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science, The University of Manchester, UK
Research Article
?Something that Facilitates Our Work?rather than a Hindrance?: Clinical Pharmacist Perspectives on the Use of Data Analytics to Support Polypharmacy Medication reviews in Primary Care
Author(s): Ruth Hurley*, Francine Jury, Tjeerd P. Van Staa, Victoria Palin and Christopher J. Armitage
Background: Polypharmacy and overprescribing pose an enormous challenge to safe healthcare and efficient use
of resources. Patient record data could inform safer prescribing and deprescribing, but it is unclear how these
complex data should be summarized and displayed to clinicians. The current study examined the perspectives of
clinical pharmacists (CPs), a newly expanding workforce of primary care medication specialists, to explore ways
that novel analytics could help improve health outcomes for frail and elderly (>65 yrs) patients.
Methods: The utility of novel analytics interventions were discussed in an exploratory scoping workshop. Health
risk data for frail and elderly patients with polypharmacy (modelled from extensive national datasets) were presented
to primary care clinical pharmacists (n=14). Verbal and textual.. View More»
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