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Browsing by Author "Litchfield, Melisa"

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    Anticholinergic medicines use among older adults before and after initiating dementia medicines 
    Narayan, Sujita W.; Pearson, Sallie‐Anne; Litchfield, Melisa; Le Couteur, David G.; Buckley, Nicholas; McLachlan, Andrew J.; Zoega, Helga (Wiley, 2019-07-07)
    Aims: We investigated anticholinergic medicines use among older adults initiating dementia medicines. Methods: We used Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme dispensing claims to identify patients who initiated donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine or memantine ...
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    Prescribed medicine use and extent of off-label use according to age in a nationwide sample of Australian children 
    Schaffer, Andrea L.; Bruno, Claudia; Buckley, Nicholas A.; Cairns, Rose; Litchfield, Melisa; Paget, Simon; Zoega, Helga; Nassar, Natasha; Pearson, Sallie Anne (2022-02-16)
    BACKGROUND: Medicine prescribing for children is impacted by a lack of paediatric-specific dosing, efficacy and safety data for many medicines. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of medicine use among children and the rate of 'off-label' prescribing ...