Identifying residents who may benefit from an analgesic review: Applying analgesic indicators in residential aged care services

LA Dowd, AJ Cross, SJ Liau, AD Jadczak… - Drugs & Aging, 2023 - Springer
Background Ensuring safe and effective analgesic use in residential aged care services is
important because older adults are susceptible to analgesic-related adverse drug events …

A systematic review of opioid prevalence in Australian residential aged care facilities

LA Dowd, L Reynolds, AJ Cross, F Veal… - … Journal on Ageing, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To systematically review the prevalence of opioid prescribing, dispensing and
administration in Australian residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Methods MEDLINE …

Strategies to build and maintain competence in pain management: insights from a SIAARTI survey on educational needs among Italian anesthesiologists

A Vittori, M Cascella, E Petrucci, A Cortegiani… - Pain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Fulfilling educational needs in pain management should be a lifelong process,
even involving physicians board certified in pain medicine such as the …

Embedded on‐site aged care pharmacists in Australia: Insights from early adopters of a new workforce model

AJ Cross, JS Bell, M Steeper… - Australasian Journal on …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To explore the roles of early adopters of Australia's embedded on‐site pharmacist
model in supporting quality use of medications in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) …

A mixed-methods study on the pharmacological management of pain in Australian and Japanese nursing homes

LA Dowd, S Hamada, Y Hattori, FC Veal… - Age and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Understanding how analgesics are used in different countries can inform
initiatives to improve the pharmacological management of pain in nursing homes. Aims To …

The ambiguous reality of prescribing in geriatric practice

PD Sloane, JD Niznik - Journal of the American Medical Directors …, 2022 - jamda.com
Every medical care provider wants to do the right thing. The challenge in care of older
persons is that the “right” thing is often unclear. Older patients have extraordinary …

Analgesic and adjuvant co-prescribing in Australian and Finnish nursing homes

LA Dowd, KH Pitkälä, AD Jadczak, HM Roitto, UL Aalto… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Objective To explore the co-prescribing of analgesic and/or adjuvant medications among
residents of Australian and Finnish nursing homes. Method Secondary cross-sectional …