Carmel Hughes
Queen's University Belfast
414 Papers
1.9K Citations
Carmel Hughes is an academic researcher from Queen's University Belfast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Pharmacist. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 391 publications. Previous affiliations of Carmel Hughes include University of Iceland & Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
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Papers
Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised?
Anne Spinewine,Kenneth E. Schmader,Nick Barber,Carmel Hughes,Kate L. Lapane,Christian Swine,Joseph T. Hanlon +6 more
TL;DR: This work defines and categorise appropriate prescribing in elderly people, critically review the instruments that are available to measure it and discuss their predictive validity, and critically review recent randomised controlled intervention studies that assessed the effect of optimisation strategies on the appropriateness of prescribing.
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Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people
Susan Patterson,Cathal A. Cadogan,Ngaire Kerse,Christopher Cardwell,Marie C. Bradley,Cristín Ryan,Carmel Hughes +6 more
TL;DR: It is unclear whether interventions to improve appropriate polypharmacy, such as pharmaceutical care, resulted in clinically significant improvement; however, they appear beneficial in terms of reducing inappropriate prescribing.
Benefits and risks of self medication.
TL;DR: Monitoring systems, a partnership between patients, physicians and pharmacists and the provision of education and information to all concerned on safe self medication are proposed strategies for maximising benefit and minimising risk.
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On the frontline against COVID-19: Community pharmacists' contribution during a public health crisis.
Cathal A. Cadogan,Carmel Hughes +1 more
TL;DR: Roles and activities that community pharmacists can undertake to help in relieving pressure on other areas of the health service, such as general practice are highlighted to inform future decisions about the restructuring of existing health services.
Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy in older people: a Cochrane systematic review
Janine A. Cooper,Cathal A. Cadogan,Sue Patterson,Ngaire Kerse,Marie C. Bradley,Cristín Ryan,Carmel Hughes +6 more
TL;DR: The included interventions demonstrated improvements in appropriate polypharmacy based on reductions in inappropriate prescribing, and future intervention studies would benefit from available guidance on intervention development, evaluation and reporting to facilitate replication in clinical practice.
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