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Health Services Promotion

Researchers working to support health services within the community pharmacy setting

Associate Professor Ines Krass, Head of Discipline
Professor Jo-anne Brien, Pro-Dean & Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Dr Timothy Chen, Senior Lecturer
Dr Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, Senior Lecturer
Dr Lorraine Smith, Senior Lecturer
Dr Parisa Aslani, Senior Lecturer
Dr Bandana Saini, Lecturer

Summary of community pharmacy services

Many of our research projects develop services which manage chronic diseases as well as informing the development of public health policy. These research projects are detailed in other areas of this website, but are summarised here for your convenience with a pointer to the additional detail.

The research projects involved include: the delivery of S2/S3 products; Home Medicines Review (HMR); Disease State Management (DSM) services in asthma, diabetes and sleep apnea; research into anticoagulation; providing services to monitor communities susceptible to chronic heart failure (CHF); and, investigating mental health services provided through community pharmacies.

HDR candidates

  • Ellitt, Glena R.
    Doctor of Philosophy (part-time)
    Submit date: July 2010
    "Mulitidisciplinary continuity of patient care"
    Primary supervisor: Dr Timothy Chen
    Associate supervisor: Dr Parisa Aslani & Professor Jo-anne Brien
  • Giam Lee, Jennifer A.
    Doctor of Philosophy (part-time)
    Submit date: February 2013
    "Quality use of extemporaneous preparations secondary to satisfy unmet medication needs in the community"
    Primary supervisor: Professor Ines Krass
    Associate supervisor: Professor Andrew McLachlan
  • Labai-Hargreaves, Tracey-Lea
    Doctor of Philosophy (full-time)
    Submit date: February 2012
    "Studies in chronic medicine-taking behaviour"
    Primary supervisor: Professor Jo-anne Brien
    Associate supervisor: Jan
  • Lehnbom, Elin C.
    Doctor of Philosophy (full-time)
    Submit date: February 2012
    "Chronic illness: Health services and policy in Australia"
    Primary supervisor: Professor Jo-anne Brien
  • Naik Panvelkar, Pradnya M.
    Doctor of Philosophy (full-time)
    Submit date: February 2011
    "Patient preferences for community pharmacy based asthma services"
    Primary supervisor: Dr Bandana Saini
    Associate supervisor: Professor Carol Armour
  • O'Reilly, Claire L.
    Doctor of Philosophy (full-time)
    Submit date: July 2011
    "Training and education of pharmacists and pharmacy students in mental health"
    Primary supervisor: Dr Timothy Chen
    Associate supervisor: Bell
  • Sinha, Yashwant K.
    Doctor of Philosophy (part-time)
    Submit date: February 2013
    "Medicines in children: Clinical trials, ethics and access"
    Primary supervisor: Professor Jo-anne Brien
    Associate supervisor: Craig
  • Van, Connie
    Doctor of Philosphy (full-time)
    Submit date: February 2012
    "Inter-professional collaboration between pharmacists and other health-care professionals"
    Primary supervisor: Associate Professor Ines Krass
    Associate supervisor: Mitchell

Competitive research grants

  • "Building organisational flexibility to promote the implementation of primary care services in community pharmacy"
    Benrimoj, Feletto
    Pharmacy Guild of Australia
    $197,244
    2007 - 2009
  • "The inter-professional learning demonstration project"
    Bosnic-Anticevich, Armour, Smith, Krass, Saini, Reddel
    Department of Health & Ageing
    $358,267
    2009 - 2010
  • "Exploring the barriers to achieving quality use of medicines in cardiovascular health"
    Aslani, Krass, Bajorek, Tofler, Thistlethwaite, Bunker
    Heart Foundation
    $85,000
    2009
  • A needs analysis to determine the needs of Indigenous people with chronic heart failure"
    Pont, Swain, Aslani, Stirling, Wilcox
    Heart Foundation
    $20,000
    2009

Recent publications

  1. Castelino RL, Bajorek BV, Chen TF (2009). Targeting Inappropriate Prescribing in the Elderly: A Review of the Impact of Pharmacy Services. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Volume 43, June.
  2. Ellit G, Brien JE, Aslani P, Chen T (2009). Quality patient care and the pharmacists' role in its continuity: A systematic review, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, March 2009, 43:4, 677-691,DOI 10.1345/aph.1L505.
  3. Sweidan M, Reeve J, Brien JE, Jayasuria P, Martin JH, Vernon G. Quality of drug interaction alerts in prescribing and dispensing software, Medical Journal of Australia, 190:5, 251-4.
  4. Fois R, Mewes B, McLachlan AJ, Ramzan I. ‘Off-label’ prescribing and extemporaneously dispensed (compounded) medicines - a case for more guidance. Aus Family Physician 2009; 38 (1/2) 16-20.
  5. Aslani P, Krass I (2009). Adherence: A Review of Education, Research, Practice and Policy in Australia, Pharmacy Practice, Jan-March 7:1, 1-10.
  6. Lehnbom E, Welch S, Ludington J, Bryant W, Brien JE (2009). Evaluation of a newly introduced insulin chart: Impact on patient management, Journal of Pharmacy Practice Research, 39:1, 45-9.
  7. Sinha Y, Brien JE, Craig J (2009). The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and implications for paediatric prescribing, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 45:6, 351-357, June, DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2009.01500.x.
  8. Brien JE, Reeve J, Sweidan M, Jayasuria P, Martin J (2009). Drug interaction alerts on dispensing and prescribing software, Journal of Pharmacy Practice Research, 39:1, 45-9.
  9. Nistala P, McLachlan AJ, Bell JS, Chen TF (2009). Determinants of Antidepressant Medication Use Among Older People Living in Aged Care Homes in Australia, The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, accepted April 2009.
  10. Bell JS, O’Reilly C, Chen TF. People with mental illness as providers of pharmacy education. Accepted for publication American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.
  11. Aaltonen E, Bell JS, Foulon V, Desplenter S, Volmer D, Airaksinen M, Vitola A, Gharat M, Chen TF. Determinants of mental health stigma among pharmacy students in Australia, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, India and Latvia. Accepted for publication Int J Soc Psychiatry 2008.
  12. Thistlethwaite J, Ajjawi R, Aslani P (2009). The decision to prescribe: Influences and choice, InnovAiT, accepted.
  13. de Almeida Neto AC, Aslani P, Chen T (2009). Guidelines for involving patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence: Have we got it right, British Medical Journal, accepted.
  14. Nishtala P, Hilmer S, McLachlan AJ, Chen TF. Drug burden index and aged care homes: Impact of residential medication management reviews. Provisionally accepted, Drugs & Aging.
  15. Kelly F, Williams KA, Benrimoj SI. Is practice behaviour in community pharmacies driven by the non-prescription medicine requested? Annals of Pharmacotherapy. [accepted pending revisions].
  16. Peterson-Clarke G, Aslani P, Williams K (2009). Pharmacists’ online information literacy: An assessment of their use of Internet-based medicines information, Health Information and Libraries Journal, [submitted July 10].
  17. Williams KA, Emmerton L, Taylor R, Werner J, Benrimoj SI. Non-prescription medicines and Australian community pharmacy interventions: rates and clinical significance. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety [submitted].
  18. Yen L, Gillespie JA, Jeon YH, Brien JE, Jan S, Kljakovic M, Lehnbom E,
    Pearce-Brown C, Usherwood T (2009). Health professionals, patients and chronic illness policy: A qualitative study, Journal of Pharmacy Practice Research, submitted.
  19. Lehnbom E, Russell L, Boxall AM, Brien JE (2009). How to improve chronic disease management: The views of community pharmacists, Journal of Pharmacy Practice Research, submitted.
  20. Halim M, Vincent H, Saini B, Hämeen-Anttila K, Vainio K, Moles R (2009). Issues in Medicines Use in Australian Children: A Literature Review, Australian Journal of Pharmacy, submitted.
  21. Halim M, Vincent H, Saini B, Hämeen-Anttila K, Vainio K, Moles R (2009). Issues in Medicines Use in Australian Children: Reliability and validity of the Children’s Medicines Use Questionnaire (CMUQ), Pharmacy World and Science, submitted.
  22. Foulon V, Svala A, Koskinen H, Chen TF, Saastamoinen L, Bell JS (2009). Impact of regulatory safety warnings on the use of antidepressants among children and adolescents in Finlan,. submitted to Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (April 2009).
  23. Benrimoj SI, Gordois A, Emmerton L, Gadiel D, Davey P, Raffaele C, Taylor R, Werner J, Williams KA. Pharmacy A cost-benefit analysis of non-prescription medicine (OTC) scheduling, submitted Value in Health.
  24. Williams KA, Emmerton L, Taylor R, Raffaele C, Werner J, Benrimoj SI. Clinical significance of non-prescription medicine interventions in Australian community pharmacies. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, submitted.
  25. Brien JE, Williams KA. ePharmacy and standards of practice. Journal of Medical Internet Research, in preparation.
  26. Peterson-Clark G, Aslani P, Williams KA. Pharmacists’ information literacy: Development of an evaluation questionnaire. Journal of Medical Internet Research, in preparation.
  27. Hietbrink E, Saini B, Brown J, Moles R (2009). Children’s over-the-counter medicines: A review of common dosing issues, in preparation.
  28. Van K, Saini B, R. Moles R (2009). Availability of paediatric medicines in Australia in comparison with the USA and the UK, in preparation.