Publications by authors named "Steve A Hudson"

Objectives: To explore factors associated with Scottish pharmacists' views and attitudes to continuing professional development (CPD).

Methods: A retrospective principal component analysis of 552 (22.8%) questionnaires returned from a sample of 2420 Scottish pharmacists randomly selected from the 4300 pharmacists registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and with a Scottish address.

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Background: Clinically significant pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes occurring with age make older patients more prone to the consequences of inappropriate prescribing. The combination of higher use of medicines resulting from a higher disease burden with suboptimal treatment monitoring results in a higher risk of unwanted drug effects from sometimes inappropriate choice of drugs, doses and durations of treatment. Pharmacy services are increasingly being targeted to minimize the overall number of unnecessary and potential harmful medicines.

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Objectives: To summarise Scottish pharmacists' views and attitudes towards Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Setting: Random sample of RPSGB registered Scottish pharmacists.

Method: A postal questionnaire of pharmacists' CPD activity, views and attitudes was developed, piloted and sent to 2420 pharmacists.

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Objective: The study aimed to assess adherence of prescribed medication in primary care to nationally recognised guideline criteria using case note review applying a previously developed medication assessment tool for coronary heart disease (MAT-CHD). Setting Primary care medical centre serving 17,991 patients. A sample of 208 from 463 patients with type 2 diabetes aged 20-75 years with or without a history of ischaemic heart disease (IHD).

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