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List of works by Sallie-Anne Pearson

"Some sort of fantasy land": A qualitative investigation of appropriate prescribing in cancer care

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

'I don't think I'd be frightened if the statins went': a phenomenological qualitative study exploring medicines use in palliative care patients, carers and healthcare professionals.

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

A comparison of practice outcomes of graduates from traditional and non-traditional medical schools in Australia.

scientific article published on October 2002

A cross sectional study of psychotropic medicine use in Australia in 2018: a focus on polypharmacy

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

A life‐cycle approach to monitoring benefits and harms of medicines

scientific article published on September 17, 2012

A methodological protocol for selecting and quantifying low-value prescribing practices in routinely collected data: an Australian case study

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A national study on prescribed medicine use in Australia on a typical day

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

A survey of Australian public attitudes towards funding of high cost cancer medicines

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

A system for maintaining the educational and training standards of junior doctors

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

A systematic review and meta-analysis of prescribing practices of antidepressants in cancer patients

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Accidental pharmacological poisonings in young children: population-based study in three settings.

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Adherence to prescribing restrictions for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer in Australia: A national population-based observational study (2001-2016)

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An audit of cancer of unknown primary notifications: A cautionary tale for population health research using cancer registry data

scientific article published on 11 June 2014

An overview of the patterns of prescription opioid use, costs and related harms in Australia

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Antidepressant therapy in cancer patients: initiation and factors associated with treatment

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Ascertainment of self-reported prescription medication use compared with pharmaceutical claims data

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Benchmarking prescription drug access patterns in pharmaceutical claims: a method for identifying high and potentially harmful opioid use in Australia and Canada?

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Benzodiazepine Use in Older Adults in the United States, Ontario, and Australia from 2010 to 2016.

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Can administrative data be used to measure chemotherapy side effects?

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Changing medication use in managed care: a critical review of the available evidence

scientific article published on November 2003

Chemotherapy Administration

scientific article published on 01 December 2012

Choosing wisely? Quantifying the extent of three low value psychotropic prescribing practices in Australia

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Codeine use and harms in Australia: evaluating the effects of re-scheduling

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Combating escalating harms associated with pharmaceutical opioid use in Australia: the POPPY II study protocol

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Computerized clinical decision support for prescribing: provision does not guarantee uptake.

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Correction: The health services burden of heart failure: an analysis using linked population health data-sets.

scientific article published on 17 May 2013

Cost of cancer care for patients undergoing chemotherapy: The Elements of Cancer Care study

scientific article published on 13 April 2015

Decision making in CPR: attitudes of hospital patients and healthcare professionals

scientific article published on August 3, 1998

Defined daily doses (DDD) do not accurately reflect opioid doses used in contemporary chronic pain treatment

scientific article published on 19 January 2017

Developing indicators for measuring low-value care: mapping Choosing Wisely recommendations to hospital data

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Diagnosis-based and external cause-based criteria to identify adverse drug reactions in hospital ICD-coded data: application to an Australia population-based study

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Discontinuation of statin therapy in older people: does a cancer diagnosis make a difference? An observational cohort study using data linkage

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Disinvestment and Value-Based Purchasing Strategies for Pharmaceuticals: An International Review

scientific article published on 06 June 2015

Dispensing Practices of Fixed Dose Combination Controller Therapy for Asthma in Australian Children and Adolescents

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Do computerised clinical decision support systems for prescribing change practice? A systematic review of the literature (1990-2007)

scientific article published on 28 August 2009

Do junior doctors feel they are prepared for hospital practice? A study of graduates from traditional and non-traditional medical schools

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Economic evaluations of trastuzumab in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: a systematic review and critique

scientific article published on February 24, 2013

Electronic information and clinical decision support for prescribing: state of play in Australian general practice

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Estimating misclassification error in a binary performance indicator: case study of low value care in Australian hospitals

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Evaluating medicines: let's use all the evidence

scientific article published on March 2007

Exploring variation in low-value care: a multilevel modelling study.

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Factors influencing prescribing: an intern's perspective

scientific article published on August 2002

Harmonizing post-market surveillance of prescription drug misuse: a systematic review of observational studies using routinely collected data (2000-2013).

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Health service use and costs in the last 6 months of life in elderly decedents with a history of cancer: a comprehensive analysis from a health payer perspective

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Health service utilisation and investigations before diagnosis of cancer of unknown primary (CUP): A population-based nested case–control study in Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs clients

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Health-related quality of life among HIV-infected patients initiating treatment in Brazil in the single-tablet regimen era

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High risk prescribing in older adults: prevalence, clinical and economic implications and potential for intervention at the population level

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Hospital discharge diagnostic and procedure codes for upper gastro-intestinal cancer: how accurate are they?

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Hospitalisations for pelvic inflammatory disease temporally related to a diagnosis of Chlamydia or gonorrhoea: a retrospective cohort study

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How do medical doctors use a web-based oncology protocol system? A comparison of Australian doctors at different levels of medical training using logfile analysis and an online survey

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How does prescribing for antihypertensive products stack up against guideline recommendations? An Australian population-based study (2006-2014).

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

How to attract a nephrology trainee: quantitative questionnaire results

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How well do NSW hospital data identify cases of heart failure?

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Inappropriate prescribing of preventative medication in patients with life-limiting illness: a systematic review.

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Incidence and severity of self-reported chemotherapy side effects in routine care: A prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Indigenous Australian medical students' perceptions of their medical school training.

scientific article published in November 2009

Initiation of strong prescription opioids in Australia: cohort characteristics and factors associated with the type of opioid initiated

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Insights from linking routinely collected data across Australian health jurisdictions: a case study of end-of-life health service use.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Intern prescribing decisions: few and far between

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Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the Effect of Rescheduling Alprazolam in Australia: Taking Control of Prescription Drug Use.

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Interventions designed to improve the quality and efficiency of medication use in managed care: a critical review of the literature - 2001-2007

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LEGITIMACY OF MEDICINES FUNDING IN THE ERA OF ACCELERATED ACCESS.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Long-term survival in trastuzumab-treated patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: real-world outcomes and treatment patterns in a whole-of-population Australian cohort (2001–2016)

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Long-term trajectories of medicine use among older adults experiencing polypharmacy in Australia

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

Low-value care in Australian public hospitals: prevalence and trends over time

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Manual versus automated coding of free-text self-reported medication data in the 45 and Up Study: a validation study

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Measuring 21 low-value hospital procedures: claims analysis of Australian private health insurance data (2010-2014)

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Measuring Hospital-Acquired Complications Associated With Low-Value Care

Metastatic breast cancer incidence, site and survival in Australia, 2001-2016: a population-based health record linkage study protocol

article by Sarah Lord et al published 1 February 2019 in BMJ Open

Minimal excess risk of cancer and reduced risk of death from cancer in Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs clients: a record linkage study

scientific article published in February 2014

Nursing takes time: workload associated with administering cancer protocols.

scientific article published in December 2010

Oesophagectomy rates and post-resection outcomes in patients with cancer of the oesophagus and gastro-oesophageal junction: a population-based study using linked health administrative linked data

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Older peoples’ attitudes regarding polypharmacy, statin use and willingness to have statins deprescribed in Australia

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Optimizing the Impact of Drugs on Symptom Burden in Older People With Multimorbidity at the End of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Passing the acid test? Evaluating the impact of national education initiatives to reduce proton pump inhibitor use in Australia

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Patterns and trends in the incidence of paediatric and adult germ cell tumours in Australia, 1982-2011.

scientific article published on 25 May 2016

Patterns of care and survival after a cancer of unknown primary (CUP) diagnosis: A population-based nested cohort study in Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs clients

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Patterns of immediate breast reconstruction in New South Wales, Australia: a population-based study

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Patterns of pregabalin initiation and discontinuation after its subsidy in Australia

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Person-level changes in oxycodone use after the introduction of a tamper-resistant formulation in Australia

scientific article published in March 2018

Physicians' attitudes towards accelerated access to medicines

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Prescription Opioid Access Patterns and Factors Associated with Increasing Number of Prescribers, Pharmacies, and Dispensings: An Observational Study Using Pharmaceutical Claims

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Prevalence of Potential and Clinically Relevant Statin-Drug Interactions in Frail and Robust Older Inpatients.

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Prevalence of statin-drug interactions in older people: a systematic review.

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Quantifying low-value care: a patient-centric versus service-centric lens.

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Racial disparities in access after regulatory surveillance of benzodiazepines

scientific article published in March 2006

Rationale for treatment durations of targeted cancer agents

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Regulatory and other responses to the pharmaceutical opioid problem

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Resource use, costs and quality of end-of-life care: observations in a cohort of elderly Australian cancer decedents

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Response to: 'Sentinel lymph node biopsy for in situ melanoma is unlikely in Australia' by Morton and Thompson

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Retrospective comparison of Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme claims data with prescription data in HER2-positive early breast cancer patients, 2008–2012

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Retrospective studies of end-of-life resource utilization and costs in cancer care using health administrative data: a systematic review

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Risk of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Relation to Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Testing, Repeat Testing, and Positivity: A Population-Based Cohort Study

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Standardizing care in medical oncology: are Web-based systems the answer?

scientific article published on December 2009

Studies using Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data for pharmacoepidemiological research: a systematic review of the published literature (1987-2013).

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The Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data collection: a practical guide for researchers

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The POPPY Research Programme protocol: investigating opioid utilisation, costs and patterns of extramedical use in Australia

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The crux of the matter: Did the ABC's Catalyst program change statin use in Australia?

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The health services burden of heart failure: an analysis using linked population health data-sets

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The impact of permissive and restrictive pharmaceutical policies on quetiapine dispensing: Evaluating a policy pendulum using interrupted time series analysis.

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

The impact of pharmacy computerised clinical decision support on prescribing, clinical and patient outcomes: a systematic review of the literature.

scientific article published on April 2010

The influence of admissions variables on first year medical school performance: a study from Newcastle University, Australia

scientific article published in February 2002

The relationship between assessment measures at Newcastle Medical School (Australia) and performance ratings during internship

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

The use and impact of cancer medicines in routine clinical care: methods and observations in a cohort of elderly Australians

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The validity of self-reported cancer diagnoses and factors associated with accurate reporting in a cohort of older Australian women

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To what extent do data from pharmaceutical claims under-estimate opioid analgesic utilisation in Australia?

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Trastuzumab and metastatic breast cancer: trastuzumab use in Australia--monitoring the effect of an expensive medicine access program

scientific article published in August 2007

Trastuzumab for metastatic breast cancer: Real world outcomes from an Australian whole-of-population cohort (2001-2016).

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Trastuzumab therapy in Australia: which patients with HER2+ metastatic breast cancer are assessed for cardiac function?

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Trends in chlamydia and gonorrhoea testing and positivity in Western Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women 2001?2013: a population-based cohort study

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Trends in heroin and pharmaceutical opioid overdose deaths in Australia

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Twenty-five years of prescription opioid use in Australia: a whole-of-population analysis using pharmaceutical claims

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Uncovering the potential risk of serotonin toxicity in Australian veterans using pharmaceutical claims data

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Uptake of a web-based oncology protocol system: how do cancer clinicians use eviQ cancer treatments online?

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Use and outcomes of targeted therapies in early and metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer in Australia: protocol detailing observations in a whole of population cohort

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Use of Trastuzumab for Metastatic Breast Cancer in Australia: Interpreting Findings From a Cohort of 1,469 Women on a National Access Program Versus 41 Women Treated by Two Medical Oncologists

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Validation and application of a death proxy in adult cancer patients

scientific article published on 21 October 2011

Validation of a proxy for estrogen receptor status in breast cancer patients using dispensing data.

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What proportion of patients with chronic noncancer pain are prescribed an opioid medicine? Systematic review and meta-regression of observational studies

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

What type and dose of antidepressants are cancer and non-cancer inpatients being prescribed: a retrospective case-control study at an Australian tertiary hospital

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Who benefits from fixed-dose combinations? Two-year statin adherence trajectories in initiators of combined amlodipine/atorvastatin therapy

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