🚨 1 in 2 hospital discharges = a medication problem.

💥TIC TOC Study:
Virtual pharmacists + real-time med reviews for 922 high-risk patients.

Goal: Safer discharges. Fewer ED visits.
Protocol in @bmj.com Open
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...

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We’re proud to share @sydney.edu.au has risen to first in Australia in the US News Best Global Universities rankings 🎉

Read more about our rankings: go.sydney.edu.au/bC1sGH

#USYD #UniRankings #USNewsRankings

We thank Dr Jonathan Penm FANZCAP (PainMgmt, Research) @jonpenm.bsky.social, former AdPha NSW Branch Chair and Jerry Yik FANZCAP (Lead&Mgmt, PublicHlth), AdPha Head of Policy and Advocacy for advocating tirelessly on behalf of the profession over numerous health inquiries.

I'm excited to work with @sydney.edu.au medicine and health researchers who have been awarded @ausgov.bsky.social Medical Research Future Fund (#MRFF) Clinical Trials Activity initiative! Innovative trials to improve acute pain management and optimise opioid use.

#LeadershipForGood

My latest reserach @bjajournals.bsky.social shows standardized peripheral nerve catheter securement kit + staff education reduced dislodgement rates from 8.5% to 0.7%.
✅ High compliance
📉 Fewer failures
🛌 Better pain control
#Anesthesia #PainManagement #QI - authors.elsevier.com/c/1kztd1dCDy...

Pre conference workshop starts today for @auspainsoc.bsky.social Meeting 2025. Great speakers at the #AcutePain session highlighting Transitional Pain Services, focus on function, Autism & Pain and the how #nursepractitioner support pain services. #AusPainSoc @iasp.bsky.social

Medication-focused telehealth interventions to reduce the hospital readmission rate: a systematic review Transition of care from hospital to community is a period that carries significant risk for medication errors, potentially leading to hospital readmission, and causing financial and emotional strai...

📢 Telehealth & Medication: A Powerful Duo!

My systematic review found that medication-focused telehealth interventions can reduce hospital readmissions—especially for heart failure patients. 💊📲

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Patients’ Experiences With Opioid Tapering in Noncancer... : Anesthesia & Analgesia e adopted to tailor interventions to achieve safe and successful taper outcomes. This paper aims to synthesize qualitative data capturing patients’ experiences with opioid tapering for noncancer pain....

Patient experience to opioid tapering is crucial for success. A new meta-synthesis highlights 3 themes: patient-provider trust, individualized care, and tapering strategies. Prioritize patient-centered care

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@sydneyuni.bsky.social

My latest research assesses availability, pricing, and, affordability of medicines in 54 low and middle income countries now available in @thelancet.bsky.social Global Health

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Access remains a global challenge.

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📣 Calling all UK-based healthcare professionals with an interest in perioperative care! 📣

Could you help identify which metrics would be best to measure care before, during, and after surgery? To find out more and take part, visit ths.im/3O4pBGt

Exploring access to essential medicines in the South Pacific: insights from a multi-country cross-sectional study LMICs within the South Pacific display low availability and poor affordability of essential medicines. Urgent targeted policy reform and strategic initiatives are required to ensure effective and equitable healthcare within this region.

My latest research assesses #availability, pricing, and, affordability of essential #medicines in the South Pacific. @thelancet.bsky.social Regional Health

Urgent targeted #policy reform and strategic initiatives are required

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@sydneyuni.bsky.social

I am so happy to see Dr Cindy Lau (PhD) and Linda Do (MPhil) graduate this week. They are both outstanding #pharmacists who inspire the profession.

@sydneyuni.bsky.social

Showing the path forward We present our readers’ nominations for pharmacy’s advanced practice pioneers When we decided to seek our readers’ views on who they thought had played a significant role in the pioneering ...

Excited to see my collaborators in the Australian Journal of #Pharmacy 2024 #AdvancedPractice Pioneers - ajp.com.au/in-depth/lon...

Congrats Manya Angley, Deborah Hawthorne and Chi Tran. You are all amazing pharmacists that are moving the profession forward.

51.3% of patients reported experiencing pain while in a large public hospital in New South Wales.

• mean age 57 y
• 54.9% female
• 19.5% spoke a language other than English,
• 4.5% were of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background

#AnSky #MedSky

https://buff.ly/49bToGW

Patients who experienced pain had twice the odds of giving a poor/very poor rating for the overall hospital care provided compared with those without pain (after accounting for all patient-level factors and ratings of doctors and nurses).

#AnSky #MedSky#PainSky

https://buff.ly/49bToGW

Read my latest work in @anaesjournal.bsky.social

associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Association between self‐reported pain experiences in hospital and ratings of care, readmission and emergency department visits: a population‐based study from New South Wales, Australia Introduction Evidence on patient experiences with pain in hospitals and its impact on post-discharge outcomes is limited. This study investigated the prevalence of pain in hospitals, patient charact...

My research from 75 large public hospitals of 21,900 patients showed that patients who experienced #pain were twice as likely to be #readmitted or visit ED - doi.org/10.1111/anae...

@anaesjournal.bsky.social @feliciajcox.bsky.social @riannevanboekel.bsky.social @sydneyuni.bsky.social

Association between self‐reported pain experiences in hospital and ratings of care, readmission and emergency department visits: a population‐based study from New South Wales, Australia Introduction Evidence on patient experiences with pain in hospitals and its impact on post-discharge outcomes is limited. This study investigated the prevalence of pain in hospitals, patient charact...

doi.org/10.1111/anae... - Latest paper on published today!