Caroline McCarthy

Clinical Lecturer

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Ireland

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Dr. Caroline McCarthy is a Clinical Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Her research focuses on pharmaceutical care, particularly in the context of prescribing practices and patient safety. Recent publications include studies on the readability of patient-facing materials, the impact of treatment priorities on prescribing patterns in older adults, and the effectiveness of interactive dashboards for optimizing medication use in general practice. Dr. McCarthy's work aims to address overprescribing and improve medication management in the primary care setting.

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Articles (18)

Developing and assessing the usability of a prescribing quality and safety dashboard in Irish general practice: protocol for a qualitative study

Core medication use in general practice prescriptions: A pilot study evaluating the Drug Utilization 90% Index in Irish general practice

Prevalence and predictors of sub-optimal laboratory monitoring of selected higher risk medicines in Irish general practice: a 5-year retrospective cohort study of community-dwelling older adults

Assessment of the readability of patient-facing materials for the most commonly prescribed medicines in Ireland

Medicines and society: systemic change needed to address overprescribing

Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimize prescribing in general practice: a systematic review

Impact of eliciting treatment priorities on analgesic prescribing in older patients with high levels of polypharmacy

Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimise prescribing in primary care: a protocol for a systematic review

Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimise prescribing in primary care: a protocol for a systematic review

Recruiting general practitioners and older patients with multimorbidity to randomized trials

Association between patient attitudes towards deprescribing and subsequent prescription changes

Medication changes and potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients with significant polypharmacy

Patient and general practitioner experiences of implementing a medication review intervention in older people with multimorbidity: Process evaluation of the SPPiRE trial

The multimorbidity collaborative medication review and decision making (MyComrade) study: a pilot cluster randomised trial in two healthcare systems.

The MultimorbiditY COllaborative Medication Review And DEcision Making (MyComrade) study: a protocol for a cross-border pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

GP-delivered medication review of polypharmacy, deprescribing, and patient priorities in older people with multimorbidity in Irish primary care (SPPiRE Study): A cluster randomised controlled trial

Study protocol for a process evaluation of a cluster randomised controlled trial to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing and polypharmacy in patients with multimorbidity in Irish primary care (SPPiRE)

The evolution of an evidence based intervention designed to improve prescribing and reduce polypharmacy in older people with multimorbidity and significant polypharmacy in primary care (SPPiRE)

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Tom Fahey

Michelle Flood

Frank Moriarty

Susan Smith

Dr Fiona Boland

emma wallace

Barbara Clyne

Lisa Glynn

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