NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration – 2023 publications

Providing care to marginalised communities: a qualitative study of community pharmacy teams. Helen Gibson, Caroline Sanders, Thomas Blakeman, Darren M Ashcroft, Nina Fudge, Kelly Howells (BJGP – British Journal of General Practice)

Risk of Falls and Fractures in Individuals With Cataract, Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Jung Yin Tsang, Alison Wright, Matthew J. Carr, Christine Dickinson, Robert A. Harper, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Tjeerd Van Staa, Luke Munford, Thomas Blakeman, Darren M. Ashcroft (JAMA Ophthalmology)

Identifying patients with additional needs isn’t enough to improve care: harnessing the benefits and avoiding the pitfalls of classification. Natalie Armstrong, Elizabeth Sutton, Sarah Chew, Carolyn Tarrant (BMJ Quality & Safety)

Evaluating the UK’s first national prescribing assessment for GPs in training using an online survey. Richard Knox, Brian G Bell, Ndeshi Salema, Kim Emerson, Susan Bodgener, Jonathan Rial, Gill Gookey, Glen Swanwick, Anna Charly and Anthony J Avery (BJGP Open) 

Clinical risk associated with COVID-19 among 86000 patients with congenital heart disease. Simon G. Williams, Simon Frain, Hui Guo, Matthew J Carr, Darren M Ashcroft, Bernard D Keavney (Open Heart) 

Predicting risk of endometrial cancer in asymptomatic women (PRECISION): Model development and external validation. Sarah J. Kitson, Emma J. Crosbie, D. Gareth Evans, Aritaya Lophatananon, Kenneth R. Muir, Darren Ashcroft, Evan Kontopantelis, Glen P. Martin. (BJOG)

unDerstandIng the cauSes of mediCation errOrs and adVerse drug evEnts for patients with mental illness in community caRe (DISCOVER): a qualitative study. Matthew J Ayre, Penny J Lewis, Denham L Phipps, Richard N Keers (Frontiers)

Transitional Care Interventions From Hospital to Community to Reduce Health Care Use and Improve Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis. Natasha Tyler, Alexander Hodkinson, Claire Planner, Ioannis Angelakis, Christopher Keyworth, Alex Hall, Paul Pascall Jones, Oliver George Wright, Richard Keers, Tom Blakeman, Maria Panagioti (JAMA Network Open) 

A Multi-method Exploratory Evaluation of a Service Designed to Improve Medication Safety for Patients with Monitored Dosage Systems Following Hospital Discharge. Fatema A Alqenae, Douglas Steinke, Hilary Belither, Peter Robertson, Jennifer Bartlett, Jack Wilkinson, Steven D Williams, Lawrence Brad, Mark Jeffries, Darren M Ashcroft, Richard N Keers (Drug Safety)

Common Cancer Types and Risk of Stroke and Bleeding in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: A Population-Based Study in England. Alyaa M Ajabnoor, Rosa Parisi, Salwa S Zghebi, Darren M Ashcroft, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Charlotte Morris, Mamas A Mamas, Evangelos Kontopantelis (JAHA)

The association of herpes zoster and influenza vaccinations with the risk of developing dementia: a population-based cohort study within the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Artitaya Lophatananon, Matthew Carr, Brian Mcmillan, Curtis Dobson, Ruth Itzhaki, Rosa Parisi, Darren M. Ashcroft, Kenneth R. Muir (BMC Public Health)

The Impact of Oral Antibiotics Prior to Cancer Diagnosis on Overall Patient Survival: Findings from an English Population-Based Cohort Study. Eleni Domzaridou, Tjeerd Van Staa, Andrew G. Renehan, Natalie Cook, William Welfare, Darren M. Ashcroft, Victoria Palin (Current Oncology) 

Changes to healthcare utilisation and symptoms for common mental health problems over the first 21 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: parallel analyses of electronic health records and survey data in England. Vicky P. Taxiarchi, Morwenna Senior, Darren M. Ashcroft, Matthew J. Carr, Holly Hope, Matthew Hotopf, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Sally McManus, Praveetha Patalay, Sarah Steeg, Roger T. Webb, Kathryn M. Abel, Matthias Pierce (The Lancet Regional Health)

New Guidance for Self-harm: An Opportunity Not to Be Missed. Faraz Mughal, Fiona M. Burton, Harriet Fletcher, Karen Lascelles, Rory C. O’Connor, Sarah Rae, Alex B. Thomson, Nav Kapur (The British Journal of Psychiatry)

The Impact of Frailty and Deprivation on the Likelihood of Receiving Primary Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty among People with Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis. M. J. Cook, M. Lunt, D. M. Ashcroft, T. Board, Terence W. O’Neill (J Frailty Aging) 

Adverse drug reactions and hospital admissions: Large case-control study of patients aged 65–100 years using linked English primary care and hospital data. Tjeerd Pieter van Staa1, Munir Pirmohamed, Anita Sharma, Darren M. Ashcroft, Iain Buchan (BMC Med) 

Knowledge support for optimising antibiotic prescribing for common infections in general practices: evaluation of the effectiveness of periodic feedback, decision support during consultations and peer comparisons in a cluster randomised trial (BRIT2). Tjeerd van Staa, Anita Sharma, Victoria Palin, Ali Fahmi, Harriet Cant, Xiaomin Zhong, Francine Jury, Natalie Gold, William Welfare, Darren Ashcroft, Jung Yin Tsang, Rachel Ann Elliott, Christopher Sutton, Chris Armitage, Philip Couch, Georgina Moulton, Edward Tempest, Iain Edward Buchan (BMJ Open) 

Non-fatal overdose risk associated with prescribing opioid agonists concurrently with other medication: Cohort study conducted using linked primary care, secondary care and mortality records. Eleni Domzaridou, Matthew J. Carr, Tim Millar, Roger T. Webb, Darren M. Ashcroft (Addiction) 

Association of strong opioids and antibiotics prescribing with GP burnout: a retrospective cross-sectional study. Alexander Hodkinson, Salwa S Zghebi, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Christos Grigoroglou, Darren M Ashcroft, Mark Hann, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Rupert A Payne, Paul Little, Simon de Lusignan, Anli Zhou, Aneez Esmail and Maria Panagioti (BJGP) 

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on new diagnoses of type 2 diabetes in England. Emma Barron, Kamlesh Khunti, Alison K. Wright, Darren M. Ashcroft, Matthew J. Carr, Martin K. Rutter, Jonathan Valabhji (Diabetes, obesity and metabolism) 

Frequency and impact of medication reviews for people aged 65 years or above in UK primary care: an observational study using electronic health records. Rebecca M. Joseph, Roger D. Knaggs, Carol A. C. Coupland, Amelia Taylor, Yana Vinogradova, Debbie Butler, Louisa Gerrard, David Waldram, Barbara Iyen, Ralph K. Akyea, Darren M. Ashcroft, Anthony J. Avery & Ruth H. Jack (BMC Geriatrics) 

Protocol for the mixed methods, Managing young people (aged 16–25) with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Primary care (MAP) study: mapping current practice and co-producing guidance to improve healthcare in an underserved population. Anna Price, Jane R Smith, Faraz Mughal, Anita Salimi, G J Melendez-Torres, Tamsin Newlove-Delgado (BJM Open) 

Supporting carers to improve patient safety and maintain their well-being in transitions from mental health hospitals to the community: A prioritisation nominal group technique. Sarah McMullen, Maria Panagioti, Claire Planner, Sally Giles, Ioannis Angelakis, Richard N Keers, Catherine Robinson, Yu Fu, Judith Johnson, Natasha Tyler (Health Expectations) 

Recent GP consultation before death by suicide in middle-aged males: a national consecutive case series study. Faraz Mughal, Lana Bojanić, Cathryn Rodway, Jane Graney, Saied Ibrahim, Leah Quinlivan, Sarah Steeg, Su-Gwan Tham, Pauline Turnbull, Louis Appleby, Roger T Webb and Nav Kapur (BJGP) 

Temporal trends in eating disorder and self-harm incidence rates among adolescents and young adults in the UK in the 2 years since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study. Alex M Trafford, Matthew J Carr, Prof Darren M Ashcroft, Prof Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Emma Cockcroft, Lukasz Cybulski, Emma Garavini, Shruti Garg, Thomas Kabir, Nav Kapur, Rachel K Temple, Roger T Webb, Pearl L H Mok (The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health) 

Patient safety in prisons: a multi-method analysis of reported incidents in England. Isobel J McFadzean, Kate Davies, Thomas Purchase, Adrian Edwards, Stuart Hellard, Darren M Ashcroft, Anthony J Avery, Sandra Flynn, Tom Hewson, Melanie Jordan, Richard Keers, Maria Panagioti, Verity Wainwright, Florian Walter, Jenny Shaw, Andrew Carson-Stevens (J R Soc Med) 

Using sociotechnical theory to understand medication safety work in primary care and prescribers’ use of clinical decision support: a qualitative study. Mark Jeffries, Nde-Eshimuni Salema, Libby Laing, Azwa Shamsuddin, Aziz Sheikh, Tony Avery, Antony Chuter, Justin Waring, Richard Neil Keers (BMJ Open) 

Clinician acceptability of an antibiotic prescribing knowledge support system for primary care: a mixed-method evaluation of features and context. Ruth Hurley1, Francine Jury, Tjeerd P. van Staa, Victoria Palin, Christopher J. Armitage (BMC Health Serv) 

Evaluating a co-designed care bundle to improve patient safety at discharge from adult and adolescent mental health services (SAFER-MH and SAFER-YMH): protocol for a non-randomised feasibility study. Natasha Tyler, Ioannis Angelakis, Richard Neil Keers, Claire Planner, Alexander Hodkinson, Sally J Giles, Andrew Grundy, Navneet Kapur, Chris Armitage, Tom Blakeman, Stephen M Campbell, Catherine Robinson, Jessica Leather, Maria Panagioti (BMJ Open) 

Accessing psychological therapies following self-harm: qualitative survey of patient experiences and views on improving practice. Leah Quinlivan, Louise Gorman, Elizabeth Monaghan, Sadika Asmal, Roger T. Webb and Nav Kapur (BJPsych Open) 

Improving the management of self-harm in primary care. Faraz Mughal, Liam Clarke, Rachel Connolly, Amanda Yenn Teng Lee, Leah Quinlivan, Nav Kapur (British Journal of General Practice) 

Examining non-linearity in the association between age and reported Opioid Use, in different socioeconomic strata: Cohort Study Using Health Survey for England Waves from 1997 to 2014. Nowakowska M, Zghebi SS, Chen L-C, Ashcroft D, Kontopantelis E

Liaison psychiatry practitioner views on accessing aftercare and psychological therapies for patients who present to hospital following self-harm: multi-site interview study. Quinlivan L, Gorman L, Marks S, Monaghan E, Asmal S, Webb RT, Kapur N

Developing the Resident Measure of Safety in Care Homes (RMOS): A Delphi and Think Aloud Study. Tyler N, Planner C, Shears B, Hernan A, Panagioti M, Giles S

Combinations of medicines in patients with polypharmacy aged 65–100 in primary care: Large variability in risks of adverse drug related and emergency hospital admissions. Fahmi A, Wong D, Walker L, Buchan I, Pirmohamed M, Sharma A, Cant H, Ashcroft DM, van Staa TP

Involving patients and carers in patient safety in primary care: a qualitative study of a co-designed patient safety guide. Morris RL, Giles S, Campbell S