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Honorary Professor Lisa Nissen

Honorary Professor
School of Pharmacy

Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (4)
Journal Articles (218)
Conference Papers (100)
Thesis (1)
Research Reports (8)

Books

Home medicines review: disease state management guide
Home medicines review (DMMR): disease state management guide

Book Chapters

Questions about diagnosis: examples of appraisals from different health professions
Questions about patients’ experiences and concerns: examples of appraisals from different health professions
Using medicines safely and effectively
Competition the new Collaboration? Employing inter-team competitiveness to motivate health students to learn together

Journal Articles

The biopsychosocial-digital approach to health and disease: call for a paradigm expansion
Crushing and dispersing medicines
Use of preventive medication in patients with limited life expectancy: a systematic review
CPD Aligned to Competency Standards to Support Quality Practice
Forecasting the quantity and cost of medicines to treat non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: applying knowledge on medicine use from developed countries
Development and evaluation of a school-based asthma educational program
Telepharmacy: a pharmacist’s perspective on the clinical benefits and challenges [Corrigendum]
Algorithm of medication review in frail older people: focus on minimizing the use of high-risk medications
Pharmacy workforce to prevent and manage non-communicable diseases in developing nations
Adverse outcomes in relation to polypharmacy in robust and frail older hospital patients
Text messaging and medication adherence- Do we have a missed call?
A feasibility study: use of actigraph to monitor and follow-up sleep/wake patterns in individuals attending community pharmacy with sleeping disorders
Advanced pharmacy practice and leadership
Oral medication delivery in impaired swallowing: thickening liquid medications for safe swallowing alters dissolution characteristics
Patient satisfaction from two studies of collaborative doctor - pharmacist prescribing in Australia
Telepharmacy: a pharmacist's perspective on the clinical benefits and challenges
Australian pharmacists' self-perceptions in relation to the 'Advanced Pharmacy Practice Framework'
Making the transition from pharmacy student to pharmacist: Australian interns' perceptions of professional identity formation
Waste not want not: applying an old adage to the modern issue of pharmaceutical waste
Geriatrician interventions on medication prescribing for frail older people in residential aged care facilities
An advanced pharmacy practice framework for Australia
Health care consumers’ perspectives on pharmacist integration into private general practitioner clinics in Malaysia: a qualitative study
Prevalence of swallowing difficulties and medication modification in customers of community pharmacy
Shift in disease burden from communicable to non-communicable diseases: aiming to achieve Universal Health Coverage in Nepal
The Australian practice pharmacist
Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients discharged from acute care hospitals to residential aged care facilities
A systematic review of prescribing criteria to evaluate appropriateness of medications in frail older people
Asthma interventions in primary schools - a review
Impact of community pharmacist intervention discussing patients' beliefs to improve medication adherence
A pilot study to assess the appropriateness of prescribing from a randomised controlled trial of collaborative prescribing in a surgical pre admission clinic
Pharmacist prescribing of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in a surgical pre-admission clinic
Pharmacy educators' intention for the curriculum: An Australian pilot study
Management of over-the-counter insomnia complaints in Australian community pharmacies: A standardized patient study
A study protocol: A community pharmacy-based intervention for improving the management of sleep disorders in the community settings
The global public health issue of pharmaceutical waste: what role for pharmacists?
Teaching pharmacy students how to manage effectively in a highly competitive environment
Crushed tablets: does the administration of food vehicles and thickened fluids to aid medication swallowing alter drug release?
Becoming a pharmacist: the role of curriculum in professional identity formation
Becoming a pharmacist: Students' perceptions of their curricular experience and professional identity formation
Pharmacist, general practitioner, and nurse perceptions, experiences, and knowledge of medication dosage form modification
Letter to the editor: Are prescribing indicators essentially representing the frail older population?
Frailty: a key indicator to minimize inappropriate medication in older people
Australian pharmacists' understanding of their continuing professional development obligations
Feasibility and acceptability of wrist actigraph in assessing sleep quality and sleep quantity: a home-based pilot study in healthy volunteers
An evaluation of medication review reports across different settings
Future-proofing the pharmacy profession in a hypercompetitive market
Compounding practices in Queensland: experiences and perceptions of pharmacists and pharmacy students
Perioperative medication management: Expanding the role of the preadmission clinic pharmacist in a single centre, randomised controlled trial of collaborative prescribing
Supporting pharmacy practice - staged supply services
Counselling in practice - Benzodiazepine use
Chronicles of a primary care practice pharmacist
Gabapentin - keeping the frog out of your throat?
Translating research results into practice
Pharmacists', general practitioners' and consumers' views on integrating pharmacists into general practice
Integrating a pharmacist into the general practice environment: Opinions of pharmacist's, general practitioner's, health care consumer's, and practice manager's
Does a primary care practice pharmacist improve the timeliness and completion of medication management reviews?
Assisted fertility treatment
Tadalafil - helping more than erectile dysfunction?
Gabapentin: From epilepsy to menopause?
Australian don't rush to crush handbook
Can a community pharmacy sleep assessment tool aid the identification of patients at risk of sleep disorders in the community: a pilot study
An evaluation framework for non-medical prescribing research
Explainer: Do we need to follow medication use-by dates?
Pharmacist prescribing: What are the next steps?
Pilocarpine - keeping an eye on xerostomia?
Counselling on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Teledermatology in pharmacies: A pilot study
Naloxone - helping treat tricky bowels?
Botox - helping to improve bladder control?
Fenofibrate - from cholesterol to gout?
Levodopa - from parkinson's disease to restless legs?
Concept mapping to evaluate an undergraduate pharmacy curriculum
Rifampicin - from tuberculosis to psoriasis?
Australian national trends in stimulant dispensing: 2002-2009
Sulphacetamide - from eyes to fingers to toes?
Evaluation of non-medical prescribing
Nicotine and ulcerative colitis - saint or sinner?
Promoting dental health in the pharmacy
Blurred vision - symptom or problem?
Curriculum for uncertainty: Certainty may not be the answer
A trial of the distribution of chlamydia self-collection postal specimen kits from Australian community pharmacies
Bromocriptine - from Parkinson's disease to diabetes?
Topiramate - from epilepsy to weight loss?
Bevacizumab - from cancer to macular degeneration?
Can insulin be a sweetner for your brain too?
Non-medical prescribing in Australia
Community pharmacy dispensing of prescription medicine sample packs: Changing the business of medicine initiation?
Ondansetron: From PONV to tardive dyskinesia?
Ipratropium - from COPD to Parkinson's disease?
Allopurinol - from gout to angina?
Quantitative analysis of lignocaine and metabolites in equine urine and plasma by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
Ketoconazole - from fungal infections to fighting prostate cancer?
A randomized, controlled trial of oxycodone versus placebo in patients with postherpetic neuralgia and painful diabetic neuropathy treated with pregabalin
Raloxifene - Helping bones and brains?
Pharmacist prescribing in Australia - Reality or pipedream?
Preliminary study of the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of IL-6 and IL-10 in patients with chronic pain receiving intrathecal opioid infusions by chronically implanted pump for pain management
Patterns of antipsychotic medication use in Australia 2002-2007
Secondary prevention of osteoporosis in Australia: Analysis of government-dispensed prescription data
Unexplained bruising
Pharmacist prescribers
Pharmaceutical review using telemedicine: A before and after feasibility study
Availability of antidotes for the treatment of acute poisoning in Queensland public hospitals
The truth about cats and dogs: Storms and fireworks
Migraine
Is there a surplus of pharmacists?
Interprofessional education in health sciences: The University of Queensland Health Care Team Challenge
Pharmacist prescribing - taking steps towards the future
Solid medication dosage form modification at the bedside and in the pharmacy of Queensland hospitals
The Australian rise of esomeprazole-was expenditure on samples a contributor?
Treating dental pain: The role for OTC analgesics
Can prazosin help our heads and our hearts?
Pregabalin - useful for your muscle pain?
Pharmaceutical company influences on medication prescribing and their potential impact on quality use of medicines
Can a transplant medication help patients with lichen planus?
Can bosentan warm your lungs and your hands?
Prescribing Rights for pharmacists in Australia - are we getting any closer?
Could GTN strengthen your Achilles Heel?
Ibuprofen - will it help me remember?
Safety and benefits of ibuprofen at OTC doses
Zolpidem: Helping Parkinson’s disease?
An update on the pharmcological management of post-herpetic neuralgia and painful diabetic neuropathy
Nifedipine - helping to roll the 'stones' away
Topiramate - from fit to quit?
Fluoxetine - from treating depression to helping patients with MS
Supporting pharmacy practice: Communication in palliative care: Considerations for pharmacists
Naltrexone - from drug dependence to irritable bowel?
Clinical pharmacy services in the home
Perception of prescription medicine sample packs among Australian professional, government, industry, and consumer organizations, based on automated textual analysis of one-on-one interviews
Tamoxifen – from breast cancer to bipolar?
Horizontal integration between quality use of medicines and multi-professional education: the University of Queensland experience
Acetylcysteine - helping treat H. pylon?
Multiple sclerosis - Where are we now?
Are we undertreating pain in children?
Ketamine - from anaesthetic to antidepressant?
Allopurinol - from gout to schizophrenia?
Beta-lactam allergy in adults with cystic fibrosis
Statins - a role in treating sepsis and septic shock?
Topiramate - an option for binge eating disorder?
Gabapentin - calming dementia patients?
Citalopram - useful for your mind and your muscles!
Tramadol: Giving men a helping hand?
Diclofenac - anti-inflammatory or anticancer?
Destiny or dream? Dependent prescribing models for pharmacy
Academia - Shaping future pharmacists
Reforming the quality use of medicines in Australian aged care facilities: A new pharmacy practice model
RU486 - from controversy to cure?
Perceptions of the influence of prescription medicine samples on prescribing by family physicians
A community nurse referral system for HMRs: Can it work?
Renal Research
Sildenafil and tadalafil - Something to warm your cold hands?
Methadone - A new birth for the treatment of chronic pain
Keeping our kids safe
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Conference - Geriatrics '06: Letters to the Editor
Gabapentin - Helping people when they're feeling sick
BotoxR - Helping with life's real headaches!
Ciprofloxacin for CSOM - Helping people hear
Tiagabine - Evening out the ups and downs?
Atorvastatin: Benefits beyond the heart?
H2 antagonist - Fixing more than a pain in your stomach!
Modafinil: Providing a little lift for MS patients
Clinical update: Managing neuropathic pain
What's happening in practice research?
A new contraceptive - But you don't need to swallow it!
Pharmacists and prescribing rights: review of international developments
Pregabalin - learning from gabapentin?
Quantifying the use of the statin antilipemic drugs: Comparisons and contrasts between Nova Scotia, Canada, and Queensland, Australia
Professional development: A never ending story
Improving the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Supporting pharmacy practice: 'Pharmacy Land' - a user's guide for new grads (and those looking for new directions)
Practice research profile: Diverse WA research
Practice research profile: Looking back and moving forward - Consumer medication information
Practice research profile: Variability in patient responses
Arsenic: Sometimes a 'poison' can be the perfect solution!
Practice research profile: UTAS focuses on ICT
Candesartan: Giving hope to a failing heart
Paracetamol: Does that come as an injection?
Botox: More than skin deep!
Emergency contraceptive pill: Facts and the pharmacist's ethical role
Practice research profile: Looking back and moving forward - The CAPTION Project
Olanzapine: Beneficial for the mind and the stomach!
Spironolactone: A drug with plenty of heart
Asthma medications: Something for the tooth fairy to worry about?
Ropinirole: These boots are made for walking!
Methylphenidate: Playing an important role in palliative care
Cyproterone: Helping women in a hairy situation
Pimecrolimus: When things get really itchy
Pravastatin: Something for the kids?
Sildenafil: Not just for the boys!
Venlafaxine: Feeling hot hot hot!
Topiramate: From epilepsy to migraine
Paracetamol for older people
Identifying potential analgesic misuse
Technology: E-ssential for rural health?
Children with asthma
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Metformin - type II diabetes, or is it?
Antibiotic resistance: Is our house in order?
Risperidone and olanzapine: Management options for dementia patients?
Aspirin: 100 years old and still surprising us
Gabapentin: From epilepsy to pain management
Orlistat: Weight management with a twist!
Living with pain
Fluoxetine: From depression to premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Tricyclic antidepressants: Treating depression or is it?
Apomorphine: It's a long way from Parkinson's disease
Infliximab: A little more than 'inflammation'
Valaciclovir: More on genital herpes
Thalidomide gets a second chance
The travels of a young pharmacist
Irbesartan and diabetes
It's better in the bush
Community pharmacists improving health outcomes in rural and remote Queensland
The risk of contracting hepatitis when travelling: The souvenirs you don't get from shopping duty free
Domiciliary medication review: A genital herpes case study
Lethargy: Is it the medications, the lifestyle or both?
Mayo Clinic on chronic pain
Premenstrual syndrome: The condition, the therapy and the pharmacist.
Opioid analgesic prescribing and use - an audit of analgesic prescribing by general practitioners and The Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at Royal Brisbane Hospital

Conference Papers

Checking of dispensed items by an Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Assistant: pre-pilot workflow changes (poster presentation)
Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older People Discharged to Residential Aged Care Facilities
Use of inhaled anticholinergics in Australia
Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients admitted to acute care hospitals and discharged to residential aged care facilities
The impact of frailty and polypharmacy on adverse outcomes in older inpatients
Healthcare consumers’ perspectives on pharmacist integration into private general practitioner clinics in Malaysia: a qualitative study
Improving sleep disorder management through risk assessment in community pharmacies: opinions of general practitioners, pharmacists and pharmacist assistants
Supply of non-prescription 'pharmacist-only' doxylamine tablets in Australian community pharmacies: a simulated patient study
Assessment and counselling provided with over-the-counter sleep requests: A secret shopper study
Views on pharmaceutical access and governance in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom (UK)
Does promoting patients' personal understanding about medications for acute coronary syndrome improve adherence: Use of the repertory grid technique
Pharmaceutical access in Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia
Views on healthcare access in Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia
Integrating a pharmacist into the general practice setting: Opinions of pharmacists, general practitioners, health care consumers, and practice managers
Changes in medication beliefs over time in adherent and non-adherent patients post myocardial infarction
Pharmacists reinforcing patients' beliefs about medications to improve adherence post myocardial infarction
Does promoting opinions about medications in patients with acute coronary syndrome improve adherence: A randomised controlled trial - six month interim results
The evaluation of health care systems of Denmark, England, France, Canada, The United States and Australia
Beliefs towards medications for acute coronary syndrome and their relation to adherence one month after hospital discharge
The utility of screening tools in a sleep disorder patient medication history within a hospital setting
Nonprescription treatments for snoring and insomnia: Is there any evidence to support their use?
Medication beliefs in patients with acute coronary syndrome one month after discharge from hospital - a novel interview method using the repertory grid technique
The evaluation of health-care systems of China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia
Qualitative study of issues concerning pharmaceutical access, utilisation and governance in Australia, Canada and England
Can community pharmacists play a role in Chlamydia testing?
Experiencing the pharmacy curriculum: Results of an observational study
Does a practice pharmacist increase the uptake and timeliness of medication reviews?
What are pharmacists views on integration into the general practice environment?
A look at benzodiazepine usage amongst the Australian concession and war veteran populations
Becoming a pharmacist: Interns’ perceptions of undergraduate curricula
Pharmacist practice and student experience of extemporaneous compounding in Queensland
Current Australian pharmacy undergraduate curriculum - are we really preparing graduates for the future?
Use of health-care indicators in the evaluation of health care systems around the world
Community pharmacy dispensing of prescription medicine sample packs: Changing the business of medicine initiation?
Current status of pharmacist influences on prescribing of medicines
Efficacy Of Patient Medication Histories For The Diagnosis Of Sleep Disorders: In Both Community And Hospital Settings
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines
A study of intravenous administration of furosemide in the horse
Treating post-herpetic neuralgia or painful diabetic neuropathy with a combination of pregabalin and oxycodone: A randomized controlled trial
Efficacy of Pregabalin And Oxycodone in patients with post-herpetic neuralgia or painful diabetic neuropathy
Psychotropic medications in Australian children and youth
Psychotropic medications in Australian children and youth
Building interprofessional teams for assessing authentic interprofessional learning activities
Psychotropic medications in Australian children and youth
Extending the reach Of the pharmacist: Using telepharmacy to provide remote pharmaceutical review in rural hospitals
Osteoporosis: Use of bisphosphonates in the Australian population
Osteoporosis: Use of bisphosphonates in Australia
Antipsychotic medication use in Australia
Osteoporosis: Use of Bsiphosphonates in Australia
Pre-registration Pharmacist Training Experiences In Queensland Public Hospitals-Are Their Expectations Being Met?
Pharmacist Prescribing - The Why, The What and The Wherefore
A randomized control trial of pregabalin and oxycodone in post herpetic neuralgia and painful diabetic neuropathy
Co-administration of pregabalin and oxycodone for the treatment of neuropathic pain: A randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study
Doctor, Pharmacist and Consumer Perceptions of Prescription Medicine Sample Packs – Present and Future
Horizontal Integration between Quality Use of Medicines and Multi-professional Education: the University of Queensland Experience
Supporting the “Sole”
The Australian rise of Esomeprazole - Is expenditure on samples a contributor?
Prescription Medicine Sample Packs: How Are they Viewed By Professional, Government, Industry and Consumer Organisations?
Does antibiotic sensitivity testing for Pseudomonas aeruginosa exacerbations in cystic fibrosis patients influence clinical choice?
Online Learning Modules to Promote Inter-Professional Learning about the Quality Use of Medicines (QUM)
Pain Management - If Pain Persists, Please See Your Doctor
Trends in antipsychotic medication prescribing in Australia
Use of atypical antipsychotic medications in older Australians
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines
Crushing and altering medications in Queensland hospitals
A study of allergic reactions to beta-lactam antibiotics in adults with cystic fibrosis: What is new?
A study of allergic reactions to beta-lactam antibiotics in an adult cystic fibrosis unit
A study of desensitisation procedures to beta-lactam antibiotics in adult patients with cystic fibrosis: An update
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines: Proposal of a 'medication maintenance' model
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines: Proposal of an 'advanced practitioner' model
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines: Proposal of a 'protocol management' model
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines: Proposal of a 'pharmacists' formulary' model
Pharmacists as potential 'prescribers': Views of medical practitioners, pharmacists and consumers
Quantifying the use of the 'statin' antilipemic drugs in Nova Scotia, Canada and Queensland, Australia
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines: Proposed practice models and qualitative analysis of key stakeholder interviews
Pharmacist prescribing models
Cross country comparisons of drug utilisation: Experiences with an Australian and Canadian 'statin' comparison
Pharmacy: Making it better in the bush
A community nurse referral system for HMRs: Can it work?
Community Nurse Referral for HMR - Will it Work?
Sample medication: What do Australian general practitioners think?
Do prescription medicine samples influence prescribing? Issues in Australian general practice
Implementing a community pharmacy care integration project in rural Australia
Can telepharmacy provide pharmacy services in the bush?
Ten good reasons to leave the city: Why become a country hospital pharmacist
Pharmacists integrating care for patients with complex needs in rural and remote Queensland
Community pharmacists improving patient health outcomes: A new model of care for rural and remote Queensland
Development of a Queensland poisons information website: enhanced public and health professional access to information on poisoning and its prevention
Ensuring a bold new future for Pharmacy in the bush: Telepharmacy
Insulin: Getting The Correct Information (Technicians'Program)
'Beyond the black stump': Community pharmacists helping to improve the health of rural and remote Australians
A community pharmacy care integration project: Results of a study in rural and remote Queensland
Clinical pharmacy mentoring: Its role in a community pharmacy care integration project.
Follow-up audit of analgesic prescribing and use at the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at Royal Brisbane Hospital: Temporal changes in anticonvulsant prescribing from 1999 to 2000
Taking hospital experience into the community: Utilizing clinical pharmacy experience to implement a community pharmacy care integration project in rural and remote Queensland
Implementing a community pharmacy care integration project in rural and remote Queensland
Utilising clinical pharmacy skills in rural and remote community pharmacies
Opioid analgesic prescribing and use - An audit of analgesic prescribing by general practitioners and the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at Royal Brisbane Hospital
Opioid analgesic prescribing and use: An audit of analgesic prescribing by general practitioners and the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at Royal Brisbane Hospital
Opioid analgesic prescribing and use: an audit of analgesic prescribing by general practitioners and the multidisciplinary Pain Centre at Royal Brisbane Hospital

Thesis

Quality use of medicines : from drug use evaluation to rural community pharmacy practice

Research Reports

Pilot 3A: University of Queensland pharmacy collection
Detecting three common drugs in horses: Frusemide, betamethasone and triamcinolone acetate
Expert Commentary (National Prescribing Service)
Improving Australians' access to prescription medicines: Development of pharmacy practice models
Rural community pharmacists integrating care for people with complex health needs
Scholarships for rural pharmacists to attend a re-entry program at the University of Queensland. Final Report
Community pharmacists providing clinical services for dispensing doctors and depot pharmacies in rural Queensland: Telepharmacy
Pharmacists assisting general practitioners and the health care team in the integration of care for complex needs patients in rural and remote areas: Final report