Publications by authors named "Amber O'Brien"
Background: Learning Networks are increasingly used to educate clinicians and disseminate information to health professionals. During the height of the second COVID-19 lockdown in Victoria, Australia, COVID+ Learning Network webinars were introduced as a mechanism for disseminating emerging evidence and up-to-date information to health service managers, and primary care and community healthcare clinicians, and for obtaining feedback from the healthcare sector.
Methods: A qualitative descriptive study design was used to explore the COVID+ Learning Network webinars from users' perspectives.
Article Synopsis
- - Lynch syndrome is a hereditary condition that elevates the risk for various cancers, including both internal tumors and specific skin tumors like keratoacanthomas and sebaceous tumors.
- - Diagnosing Lynch syndrome can be complicated, especially in cases of mosaicism where affected individuals may not show a clear genetic variant, which is rare in medical literature.
- - This report highlights a unique case where keratoacanthoma testing via immunohistochemistry led to the diagnosis of mosaic Lynch syndrome, emphasizing the need to consider mosaicism in strong clinical cases even when genetic tests are inconclusive.
Implementing prescribing safety indicators in prisons: A mixed methods study.
Br J Clin Pharmacol
February 2022
Aims: To examine the prevalence of potentially hazardous prescribing in the prison setting using prescribing safety indicators (PSIs) and explore their implementation and use in practice.
Methods: PSIs were identified and reviewed by the project team following a literature review and a nominal group discussion. Pharmacists at 2 prison sites deployed the PSIs using search protocols within their electronic health record.