Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics.

Louis Fisher; Lisa EM Hopcroft; Sarah Rodgers; James Barrett; Kerry Oliver; Anthony J Avery; Dai Evans; Helen Curtis; Richard Croker; Orla Macdonald; Jessica Morley; Amir Mehrkar; Sebastian Bacon; Simon Davy; Iain Dillingham; David C. Evans; George Hickman; Peter Inglesby; Caroline E Morton; Becky Smith; Tom Ward; William Hulme; Amelia Green; Jon Massey; Alex J Walker; Christopher Bates; Jonathan Cockburn; John Parry; Frank Hester; Sam Harper; Shaun O’Hanlon; Alex Eavis; Richard Jarvis; Dima Avramov; Paul Griffiths; Aaron Fowles; Nasreen Parkes; Ben Goldacre; Brian MacKenna

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Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics.

June 7, 2023

Fisher L, Hopcroft LEM, Rodgers S, et al. BMJ Medicine. 2023;2(1):e000392.

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Pharmacists play a critical role in medication safety. This article evaluated the impact of a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) among a retrospective cohort of 56.8 million National Health Service (NHS) patients across 6,367 general practices between September 2019 and September 2021. Findings indicate that potentially dangerous prescribing (i.e., prescribing medications to patients without associated blood test monitoring, co-prescribing medications with adverse indications, prescribing medications to patients with certain comorbidities) was largely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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