Publications by authors named "Joanna F Hikaka"
Article Synopsis
- interRAI offers standardized tools for assessing health and well-being, widely used in over 40 countries, to aid in personalized care and inform population-level research and policies.
- The text highlights the specific implementation of interRAI in New Zealand's public health system, emphasizing its significance for Māori Indigenous concerns and calls for enhanced data use for healthcare improvements.
- A national research network in NZ has been formed to prioritize interRAI research, aiming to translate collected data into better clinical care and quality improvement, thus impacting both local practices and broader international standards.
Introduction The Safer Prescribing and Care for the Elderly (SPACE) cluster randomised controlled trial in 39 general practices found that a search of the practice database to identify and generate for each general practitioner (GP) a list of patients with high-risk prescribing, pharmacist-delivered one-on-one feedback to GPs, and electronic tick-box for GPs to select action for each patient (Patient letter; No letter but possible medication review when patient next in; No action), prompted safer prescribing at 6 months but not at 1 year. Aim This process evaluation explores research participation, intervention uptake and effect on GPs. Methods Mixed methods were used including quantitative data (log of practice recruitment, demographic data, intervention delivery and GP responses including tick-box selections) and qualitative data (trial pharmacist reflective journal).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Safer prescribing in general practice may help to decrease preventable adverse drug events (ADE) and related hospitalisations.
Aim: To test the effect of the Safer Prescribing and Care for the Elderly (SPACE) intervention on high-risk prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and/or antiplatelet medicines and related hospitalisations.
Design & Setting: A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial in general practice.