Staff and researchers at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences were delighted to attend the recent Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice (HSRPP) conference in Queen's University Belfast.
The annual event has been held for over 30 years and takes place at different Higher Education Institutions across the UK and Ireland. This year's theme was "Following the Science: Generating and Implementing Evidence to Improve Health" and highlighted the importance of translating rigorous research into practice.
Muireann Counihan, PhD Candidate, presented on the association between potentially inappropriate prescribing and hospitalisation in a patient group with cardiovascular risk factors.
Marta Dobrić, PhD Candidate, described the prescribing trends for Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy in Irish primary care over a 10-year period.
Isabel Ryan, PhD Candidate, provided data on potentially inappropriate prescribing, using the OPTIMA-ID tool, in the The Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) cohort. The study is run by Trinity Centre for Ageing and the Life Course in Intellectual Disability.
Dr Juliette O'Connell presented on the co-prescribing of psychotropic medication with anti-dementia medications in Irish primary care.
Dr Cathal Cadogan outlined findings from a scoping review of mobile applications to support tapering of psychiatric medications.
Sincere thanks to Dr Heather Barry and Professor Carmel Hughes, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, for bringing the pharmacy research community together for a very enjoyable two days.
