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Leslie S. Fish
Researcher at Fallon Community Health Plan
Publications - 12
Citations - 2358
Leslie S. Fish is an academic researcher from Fallon Community Health Plan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medical prescription & Formulary. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 12 publications receiving 2271 citations. Previous affiliations of Leslie S. Fish include University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Among Older Persons in the Ambulatory Setting
Jerry H. Gurwitz,Terry S. Field,Leslie R. Harrold,Jeffrey M. Rothschild,Kristin R. DeBellis,Andrew C. Seger,Cynthia A. Cadoret,Leslie S. Fish,Lawrence Garber,Michael Kelleher,David W. Bates +10 more
TL;DR: Adverse drug events are common and often preventable among older persons in the ambulatory clinical setting and prevention strategies should target the prescribing and monitoring stages of pharmaceutical care.
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Risk factors for adverse drug events among older adults in the ambulatory setting.
Terry S. Field,Jerry H. Gurwitz,Leslie R. Harrold,Jeffrey M. Rothschild,Kristin R. DeBellis,Andrew C. Seger,Jill C. Auger,Leslie A. Garber,Cynthia A. Cadoret,Leslie S. Fish,Lawrence Garber,Michael Kelleher,David W. Bates +12 more
TL;DR: Information is gathered on patient‐level factors associated with risk of adverse drug events (ADEs) that may allow focus of prevention efforts on patients at high risk.
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Strategies for detecting adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting.
Terry S. Field,Jerry H. Gurwitz,Leslie R. Harrold,Jeffrey M. Rothschild,Kristin R. DeBellis,Andrew C. Seger,Leslie S. Fish,Lawrence Garber,Michael Kelleher,David W. Bates +9 more
TL;DR: The findings emphasize the limitations of voluntary reporting by health care providers as the principal means for detection of ADEs and suggest that multiple strategies are required to detect ADEs in geriatric ambulatory patients.
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Prevention of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis: Experience in a Managed Care Setting
Robert A. Yood,Leslie R. Harrold,Leslie S. Fish,Jackie Cernieux,Srinivas Emani,Elisabeth Conboy,Jerry H. Gurwitz +6 more
TL;DR: Women and patients prescribed glucocorticoid therapy by a rheumatologist were significantly more likely to receive intervention aimed at osteoporosis prevention and efforts should be made to reduce barriers to such treatment and increase the proportion of patients given preventive therapy.
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Adherence to asthma therapy.
Leslie S. Fish,Colleen Lum Lung +1 more
TL;DR: Promoting adherence involves a good clinician-patient relationship, as well as provision of personalized, practical, and repeated education in patients and their families.