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Rachel Howard
Researcher at University of Reading
Publications - 51
Citations - 2444
Rachel Howard is an academic researcher from University of Reading. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pharmacist & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 46 publications receiving 2083 citations. Previous affiliations of Rachel Howard include American Pharmacists Association & University of Nottingham.
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Which drugs cause preventable admissions to hospital? A systematic review
Rachel Howard,Anthony J Avery,S. Slavenburg,Simon Royal,G. Pipe,P. Lucassen,Munir Pirmohamed +6 more
TL;DR: Four groups of drugs account for more than 50% of the drug groups associated with preventable drug-related hospital admissions, and concentrating interventions on these drug groups could reduce appreciably the number of preventable drugs-related admissions to hospital from primary care.
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A pharmacist-led information technology intervention for medication errors (PINCER): a multicentre, cluster randomised, controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis
Anthony J Avery,Sarah Rodgers,Judith A. Cantrill,Sarah Armstrong,Kathrin Cresswell,Martin Eden,Rachel Elliott,Rachel Howard,Denise Kendrick,Caroline Morris,Robin J Prescott,Glen Swanwick,Matthew Franklin,Koen Putman,Matthew J. Boyd,Aziz Sheikh +15 more
TL;DR: The PINCER intervention is an effective method for reducing a range of medication errors in general practices with computerised clinical records and has a 95% probability of being cost effective if the decision-maker's ceiling willingness to pay reaches £75 per error avoided at 6 months.
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Investigation into the reasons for preventable drug related admissions to a medical admissions unit: observational study
TL;DR: The drugs most commonly implicated were NSAIDs, antiplatelets, antiepileptics, hypoglycaemics, diuretics, inhaled corticosteroids, cardiac glycosides, and beta-blockers.
Investigating the prevalence and causes of prescribing errors in general practice : the PRACtICe Study
A. A. Avery,Nick Barber,Maisoon Ghaleb,B Dean Franklin,Sarah Armstrong,Sarah Crowe,Soraya Dhillon,Anette Freyer,Rachel Howard,Cinzia Pezzolesi,Brian Serumaga,Glen Swanwick,Olanrewaju Talabi +12 more
TL;DR: Report prepared by the University of Nottingham, University of Reading and University of Hertfordshire shows that in the next five years the number of young people aged under the age of 18 will be higher than in the previous five years.
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Exploring the prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in cancer
TL;DR: NLR may have greater prognostic value in patients with certain demographic and clinical features, after further characterization of populations in which NLR has maximum prognostic potential and the identification of meaningful thresholds for risk stratification.