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Lisa Nissen

Researcher at Queensland University of Technology

Publications -  268
Citations -  4041

Lisa Nissen is an academic researcher from Queensland University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pharmacist & Pharmacy. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 258 publications receiving 3220 citations. Previous affiliations of Lisa Nissen include International Medical University & Queensland Health.

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Pharmacists and prescribing rights: review of international developments.

TL;DR: The introduction of limited prescribing rights to pharmacists has the potential to reduce fragmentation within the health system, optimise medication management, improve continuity of patient care and improve patient access to medication.
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An update on the pharmacological management of post-herpetic neuralgia and painful diabetic neuropathy.

TL;DR: Although a number of drug treatments are available for the symptomatic relief of neuropathic pain symptoms, these agents do not provide satisfactory relief in all patients and other treatment alternatives such as combination drug therapy that produces pain relief via distinctly different mechanisms may be successful.
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Patterns of antipsychotic medication use in Australia 2002-2007

TL;DR: Atypical antipsychotic drugs were most commonly used to treat schizophrenia in younger men and behavioural disturbances in older women with dementia, and appear to have been used outside of the approved indication for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Integrating a pharmacist into the general practice environment: opinions of pharmacist’s, general practitioner’s, health care consumer’s, and practice manager’s

TL;DR: In this paper, a study aimed to describe the opinions of local stakeholders in South-East Queensland on the integration of a pharmacist into the Australian general practice environment using focus groups and semi-structured interviews.
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Health professional beliefs, knowledge, and concerns surrounding medicinal cannabis - A systematic review.

TL;DR: A systematic review of literature surrounding the beliefs, knowledge, and concerns of health professionals regarding medicinal cannabis offered a lens through which to view the existing literature, limited by the implicit common-sense models of behaviour utilised by the included studies.