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  1. The association between STOPPFall medication use and orthostatic hypotension in community-dwelling older people
  2. Identifying outcomes for evaluating the impact of pharmacist prescribing: A rapid overview of reviews.
  3. Changes in benzodiazepine, z-drug, and other sedative prescribing in primary care in Ireland between 2014 and 2022
  4. Potentially inappropriate prescribing and falls-risk increasing drugs in people who have experienced a fall: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  5. An essential medicines list in Ireland: A qualitative interview study of interest-holders
  6. Pharmaceutical company promotional payments to English general practices: longitudinal study
  7. Trends in analgesia prescribing in primary care in Ireland and England between 2014 and 2022: A repeated cross‐sectional study
  8. Identifying predictors of medication-related harm in older populations: a latent class analysis approach
  9. Medicines support and socIal prescribing to aDdress pAtient prioritieS in multimorbidity (MIDAS): A process evaluation protocol
  10. The healthcare costs of poor air quality in Ireland: A review of potential data sources and methods
  11. Developing and assessing the usability of a prescribing quality and safety dashboard in Irish general practice: protocol for a qualitative study
  12. Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimize prescribing in general practice: a systematic review
  13. Impact of eliciting treatment priorities on analgesic prescribing in older patients with high levels of polypharmacy
  14. Medicines support and social prescribing to address patient priorities in multimorbidity (MIDAS): protocol for a definitive, multi-arm, cluster randomised, controlled trial in Irish general practice
  15. RxTrends: An R-based Shiny Application for Visualising Open Data on Prescribed Medications in Ireland
  16. Added Therapeutic Benefits of Top‐Selling Drugs in Japan: A Cross‐Sectional Study Using Health Technology Assessment
  17. Pharmacoepidemiology simulation study practices: A methodological review
  18. The association between STOPPFall medication use and falls and fractures in community-dwelling older people
  19. Shortcomings in reporting country-level participation in multicenter randomized controlled trials involving Ireland as a collaborating partner: a metaresearch study
  20. Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in community-dwelling older adults: an application of STOPP/START version 3 to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  21. Potentially inappropriate prescribing and falls-risk increasing drugs in people who have experienced a fall; a systematic review and meta-analysis
  22. Out-of-pocket prescription medicine expenditure amongst community-dwelling adults: Findings from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing (TILDA) in 2016
  23. RxTrends: An R-based Shiny Application for Visualising Open Data on Prescribed Medications in Ireland
  24. Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among people living with Sjögren’s: a cross-sectional survey using a modified international CAM questionnaire (I-CAM-Q)
  25. Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimise prescribing in primary care: a protocol for a systematic review
  26. Evaluating the impact of general practice pharmacist‐led person‐centred medicines reviews on medicines appropriateness and patient‐reported outcome measures
  27. Associations between pharmaceutical industry interactions and prescribing practices in chronic non-malignant pain management: A protocol for a systematic review
  28. Modelling the impact of changes to prescription medicine cost-sharing schemes among middle aged and older adults
  29. Adverse drug reactions and events in an Ageing PopulaTion risk Prediction (ADAPTiP) tool: the development and validation of a model for predicting adverse drug reactions and events in older patients
  30. 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
  31. Development and Implementation of Deprescribing Guidelines
  32. Optimising Medication Therapy in Older People
  33. Core medication use in general practice prescriptions: A pilot study evaluating the Drug Utilization 90% Index in Irish general practice
  34. Trends and patterns of sedative prescribing in primary care in Ireland between 2014 and 2022 - a repeated cross-sectional study
  35. Potentially inappropriate prescribing in middle-aged adults: a significant problem with a lack of action and evidence to address it
  36. The Association Between Psychotropic Medication Use and Gait and Mobility Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older People: Data From The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  37. Evaluation of real-world evidence to assess health outcomes related to deprescribing medications in older adults: an International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology–endorsed systematic review of methodology
  38. Drug company methodologies used for reporting in the UK pharmaceutical industry payment transparency database between 2015 and 2019: A content analysis
  39. Patterns of pain medication usage and self-reported pain in older Irish adults with osteoarthritis: A latent class analysis of data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
  40. Time Trends, Regional Variation and Associations of Low‐Allergy Formula Prescribing in England
  41. Medication adherence for people with acquired communication disorders: A systematic review
  42. Top 10 Signs and Symptoms of Psychotropic Adverse Drug Events to Monitor in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities
  43. Cost effectiveness of a GP delivered medication review to reduce polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients with multimorbidity in Irish primary care: the SPPiRE cluster randomised controlled trial
  44. Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimise prescribing in general practice: A systematic review
  45. Out-of-pocket prescription medicine expenditure amongst community-dwelling adults: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) in 2016
  46. The Development of Principles for Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Preclinical Spinal Cord Research: A Modified Delphi Study
  47. Effectiveness of interactive dashboards to optimise prescribing in primary care: a protocol for a systematic review
  48. Continued cancer drug approvals in Japan and Europe after market withdrawal in the United States: A comparative study of accelerated approvals
  49. Prevalence and risk factors for milk allergy overdiagnosis in the BEEP trial cohort
  50. Evaluating time to withdrawal of anti-cancer drug indications that received FDA’s accelerated approval
  51. Trends in analgesia prescribing in primary care in Ireland and England between 2014 and 2022 - a repeated cross-sectional study
  52. Stakeholder perceptions of and attitudes towards problematic polypharmacy and prescribing cascades: a qualitative study
  53. Payments to healthcare organisations reported by the medical device industry in Europe from 2017 to 2019: An observational study
  54. Adverse Drug reactions in an Ageing PopulaTion risk Prediction (ADAPTiP) tool: the development of a model for predicting adverse drug reaction-related hospital admissions in older patients
  55. What do clinical practice guidelines say about deprescribing? A scoping review
  56. Reducing potentially inappropriate polypharmacy at a national and international level: the impact of deprescribing networks
  57. Measuring Quality of Life in Deprescribing Trials: A Scoping Review
  58. Epidemiology and management of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma in Ireland
  59. The role of Patient and public involvement (PPI) in pre-clinical spinal cord research: An interview study
  60. Primary care prescribing prior to lung cancer diagnosis (PPP-Lung): protocol for a systematic review
  61. Pediatric blood cultures—turning up the volume: a before and after intervention study
  62. Drug company methodologies used for reporting in the UK pharmaceutical industry payment transparency database between 2015-2019: A content analysis
  63. Paediatric Escherichia coli urinary tract infection: susceptibility trends and clinical management—a retrospective analysis of a 10-year period
  64. Challenges in identifying and quantifying country-level participation in multi-country randomised controlled trials involving Ireland as a collaborating partner
  65. Perspectives of researchers and clinicians on patient and public involvement (PPI) in preclinical spinal cord research: An interview study
  66. Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing and Potential Prescribing Omissions and Their Association with Adverse Drug Reaction-Related Hospital Admissions
  67. Drug–drug interactions and the risk of adverse drug reaction‐related hospital admissions in the older population
  68. Trends in medication use at the onset of and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland: An interrupted time series study
  69. Prescribing differences among older adults with differing health cover and socioeconomic status: a cohort study
  70. Medication Adherence for People with Acquired Communication Disorders: A Systematic Review
  71. Eligibility rates and representativeness of the General Medical Services scheme population in Ireland 2016-2021: A methodological report
  72. Effect of COVID-19 vaccines for the treatment of people with post-COVID-19 condition: a rapid review
  73. Perspectives of Researchers and Clinicians on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Preclinical Spinal Cord Research: An Interview Study
  74. The role of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in pre-clinical spinal cord research: an interview study
  75. Potentially inappropriate prescribing in middle-aged adults: A significant problem with a lack of action and evidence to address it.
  76. Survival in an era of organ preservation: an update on laryngeal cancer in Ireland
  77. Trends in medication use after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland: an interrupted time series study
  78. Use of pharmacy services in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults; findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  79. The impact of lidocaine plaster prescribing reduction strategies: A comparison of two national health services in Europe
  80. Deprescribing and medicines optimisation, two sides of the same coin? Considerations for design of interventional studies
  81. Clinical study reports published by the European Medicines Agency 2016–2018: a cross-sectional analysis
  82. A blended model to support brief interventions in primary care: A qualitative study of usability and acceptability of HealthEir in community pharmacy
  83. Payments to healthcare organisations reported by the medical device industry in Europe from 2017 to 2019: an observational study
  84. The association between weather warnings and hip fractures in the Republic of Ireland
  85. Recruiting general practitioners and older patients with multimorbidity to randomized trials
  86. Prescribing differences among older adults with differing health cover and socioeconomic status: a cohort study
  87. Association between patient attitudes towards deprescribing and subsequent prescription changes
  88. Use of pharmacy services in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults; findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  89. Formal health care costs among older people in Ireland: methods and estimates using The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  90. The impact of lidocaine plaster prescribing reduction strategies: a comparison of two national health services in Europe
  91. Value assessment of deprescribing interventions: Suggestions for improvement
  92. Deprescribing and medicines optimisation, two sides of the same coin? Considerations for design of interventional studies
  93. The effectiveness and cost of integrating pharmacists within general practice to optimize prescribing and health outcomes in primary care patients with polypharmacy: a systematic review
  94. Association between patient attitudes towards deprescribing and subsequent prescription changes
  95. The effectiveness and cost of integrating pharmacists within general practice to optimize prescribing and health outcomes in primary care patients with polypharmacy: A systematic review
  96. Is There Evidence of an Association Between Acute Health Care Utilization and Function in Older Adults Over Time? A Population-Based Cohort Study
  97. Key items for reports of primary care research: an international Delphi study
  98. Medication safety incidents associated with the remote delivery of primary care: a rapid review
  99. Overprescribing among older people near end of life in Ireland: Evidence of prevalence and determinants from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  100. Medication changes and potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients with significant polypharmacy
  101. Adverse drug reactions and associated patient characteristics in older community-dwelling adults: a 6-year prospective cohort study
  102. Effect of COVID-19 vaccines for the treatment of people with post-COVID-19 condition: a rapid review
  103. Eligibility rates and representativeness of the General Medical Services scheme population in Ireland 2017-2021: A methodological report
  104. Patient and general practitioner experiences of implementing a medication review intervention in older people with multimorbidity: Process evaluation of the SPPiRE trial
  105. Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: an updated systematic review of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and views, and ethical and legal concerns
  106. Prescribing cascades in community‐dwelling adults: A systematic review
  107. Evaluation of policies and practices to support safe and appropriate analgesic and sedative prescribing: The CDRx (controlled drug prescribing) protocol
  108. What is the impact of multimorbidity on out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure among community-dwelling older adults in Ireland? A cross-sectional study
  109. Development of the ADFICE_IT Models for Predicting Falls and Recurrent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Pooled Analyses of European Cohorts With Special Attention to Medication
  110. Hospital initiation of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in older adults and discontinuation in primary care
  111. Cost outcomes of potentially inappropriate prescribing in middle‐aged adults: A Delphi consensus and cross‐sectional study
  112. Methods for evaluating the benefit and harms of deprescribing in observational research using routinely collected data
  113. 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
  114. A systematic review of the prevalence, determinants, and impact of potentially inappropriate prescribing in middle-aged adults
  115. ‘More of an art than a science’? The development, design and mechanics of the Delphi Technique
  116. Opioid and analgesic utilization in Ireland in 2000 and 2015: A repeated cross‐sectional study
  117. Prescribing cascades in community-dwelling adults: protocol for a systematic review
  118. Blood-Brain Barrier Crossing Renin-Angiotensin Drugs and Cognition in the Elderly: A Meta-Analysis
  119. GPs’ perceptions of their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry: a qualitative study
  120. Prescribing cascades in community-dwelling adults: protocol for a systematic review
  121. Persistence with oral bisphosphonates and denosumab among older adults in primary care in Ireland
  122. Efficacy and safety of sacubitril/valsartan in the treatment of heart failure: protocol for a systematic review incorporating unpublished clinical study reports
  123. Prognostic Significance of Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression in Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  124. How many medications do doctors in primary care use? An observational study of the DU90% indicator in primary care in England
  125. Prevalence and predictors of potentially inappropriate prescribing in middle-aged adults: a repeated cross-sectional study
  126. Cognitive decline associated with anticholinergics, benzodiazepines and Z‐drugs: Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  127. Factors associated with initiation of bone-health medication among older adults in primary care in Ireland
  128. Persistence with oral bisphosphonates and denosumab among older adults in primary care in Ireland
  129. Aspirin prescribing in cardiovascular disease in middle-aged and older adults in Ireland: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
  130. Hospital initiation of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in older adults and discontinuation in primary care
  131. How many medications do doctors in primary care use? An observational study of the DU90% indicator in primary care in England.
  132. Evaluation of the General Practice Pharmacist (GPP) intervention to optimise prescribing in Irish primary care: a non-randomised pilot study
  133. Cognitive decline associated with anticholinergics, benzodiazepines, and Z-drugs: findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  134. Pharmacists in general practice: a qualitative process evaluation of the General Practice Pharmacist (GPP) study
  135. The Development of an Accreditation Framework for Continuing Education Activities for Pharmacists
  136. High-risk categories for COVID-19 and their distribution by county in Republic of Ireland-evidence from the TILDA study
  137. TILDA report to inform demographics for over 50s in Ireland for COVID-19 crisis
  138. Efficacy and safety of sacubitril/valsartan in the treatment of heart failure: protocol for a systematic review incorporating unpublished clinical study reports
  139. A comparison of contemporary versus older studies of aspirin for primary prevention
  140. Comparing Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Tools and Their Association With Patient Outcomes
  141. Evaluation of the General Practice Pharmacist (GPP) intervention to optimise prescribing in Irish primary care: a non‐randomised pilot study
  142. Potentially serious alcohol–medication interactions and falls in community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study
  143. Association of Antidepressants With Recurrent, Injurious and Unexplained Falls is Not Explained by Reduced Gait Speed
  144. A comparison of contemporary versus older studies of aspirin for primary prevention
  145. Modification of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Following Fall-Related Hospitalizations in Older Adults
  146. Prescriber Variation in Relation to Prescribing Trends within the Preferred Drugs Initiative in Ireland (2012–2015): An Interrupted Time-Series Study Using Latent Curve Models
  147. Economic impact of potentially inappropriate prescribing and related adverse events in older people: a cost-utility analysis using Markov models
  148. Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study
  149. Self-report versus electronic medical record recorded healthcare utilisation in older community-dwelling adults: Comparison of two prospective cohort studies
  150. Prescribing Variation in General Practices in England Following a Direct Healthcare Professional Communication on Mirabegron
  151. The PIPc Study—application of indicators of potentially inappropriate prescribing in children (PIPc) to a national prescribing database in Ireland: a cross-sectional prevalence study
  152. Prescribing Variation in General Practices in England Following a Direct Healthcare Professional Communication on Mirabegron
  153. Deprescribing guidelines: An international symposium on development, implementation, research and health professional education
  154. Deprescribing recommendations: An essential consideration for clinical guideline developers
  155. Deprescribing: Future directions for research
  156. Fixed-dose combination antihypertensives and risk of medication errors
  157. Supporting prescribing in Irish primary care: protocol for a non-randomised pilot study of a general practice pharmacist (GPP) intervention to optimise prescribing in primary care
  158. An evaluation of prescribing trends and patterns of claims within the Preferred Drugs Initiative in Ireland (2011–2016): an interrupted time-series study
  159. A narrative review of the safety concerns of deprescribing in older adults and strategies to mitigate potential harms
  160. Potentially inappropriate prescribing and its association with health outcomes in middle-aged people: a prospective cohort study in Ireland
  161. Supporting prescribing in older people with multimorbidity and significant polypharmacy in primary care (SPPiRE): a cluster randomised controlled trial protocol and pilot
  162. Characterizing Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing of Proton Pump Inhibitors in Older People in Primary Care in Ireland from 1997 to 2012
  163. PIPc study: development of indicators of potentially inappropriate prescribing in children (PIPc) in primary care using a modified Delphi technique
  164. Potentially inappropriate prescribing according to STOPP and START and adverse outcomes in community-dwelling older people: a prospective cohort study
  165. Potentially inappropriate prescribing in two populations with differing socio-economic profiles: a cross-sectional database study using the PROMPT criteria
  166. Trends and interaction of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing in primary care over 15 years in Ireland: a repeated cross-sectional study
  167. Longitudinal prevalence of potentially inappropriate medicines and potential prescribing omissions in a cohort of community-dwelling older people
  168. Potentially Inappropriate Medicines and Potential Prescribing Omissions in Older People and Their Association With Health Care Utilization: A Retrospective Cohort Study
  169. Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing and Vulnerability and Hospitalization in Older Community-Dwelling Patients
  170. Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing and prescribing omissions in older Irish adults: findings from The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing study (TILDA)
  171. Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP) and Its Association with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Impairment in Older People