Professor Marjorie Weiss
Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Overview
I am interested in the way patients make decisions about taking medicines, how health care professionals’ make decisions about what [and whether] to prescribe and the use of education to change health care professionals’ behaviour.
Biography
Publications
2021
- Weiss, M. C. 2021. The rise of non-medical prescribing and medical dominance. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 17(3), pp. 632-637. (10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.05.015)
- Donsamak, S., Weiss, M. C. and John, D. N. 2021. Evaluation of antibiotic supply decisions by community pharmacists in Thailand: a vignette study. Antibiotics 10(2), article number: 154. (10.3390/antibiotics10020154)
2020
- Waterman, H.et al. 2020. Acceptability, adherence and economic analyses of a new clinical pathway for the identification of non-responders to glaucoma eye drops: a prospective observational study. British Journal of Ophthalmology 104(12), pp. 1704-1709. (10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-315436)
- Read, S.et al. 2020. Chronic conditions and behavioural change approaches to medication adherence: rethinking clinical guidance and recommendations. Patient Preference and Adherence 14, pp. 581-586., article number: 52446. (10.2147/PPA.S239916)
2019
- Hughes, M. L. and Weiss, M. 2019. Adverse drug reaction reporting by community pharmacists- The barriers and facilitators. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 28(12), pp. 1552-1559. (10.1002/pds.4800)
2018
- Courtenay, M.et al. 2018. Development of consensus-based national antimicrobial stewardship competencies for UK undergraduate healthcare professional education. Journal of Hospital Infection 100(3), pp. 245-256. (10.1016/j.jhin.2018.06.022)
- Weiss, M. C.et al. 2018. Community pharmacists: members or bystanders of the primary care multidisciplinary team?. Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research 9(1), pp. 67-69. (10.1111/jphs.12214)
- Elsadig, H.et al. 2018. Use of clinical guidelines in cardiology practice in Sudan. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 24(1), pp. 127-134. (10.1111/jep.12746)
- Courtenay, M.et al. 2018. Defining antimicrobial stewardship competencies for undergraduate health professional education in the United Kingdom: A study protocol. Journal of Interprofessional Care 32(5), pp. 638-640. (10.1080/13561820.2018.1463200)
2017
- Elsadig, H.et al. 2017. Exploring the challenges for clinical pharmacists in Sudan. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy 39(5), pp. 1047-1054. (10.1007/s11096-017-0521-8)
2016
- Weiss, M. C.et al. 2016. GPs, nurses and pharmacists as prescribers in primary care: an exploration using the social identity approach / Hausärzte/-innen, Diplomierte Pflegefachpersonen und Apotheker/-innen als Arzneimittelverschreiber/-innen: eine Exploration mit dem Ansatz der Sozialen Identität. International Journal of Health Professions 3(2), pp. 153-164. (10.1515/ijhp-2016-0023)
- Grey, E.et al. 2016. Characteristics of good quality pharmaceutical services common to community pharmacies and dispensing general practices. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 24(5), pp. 311-318. (10.1111/ijpp.12253)
- Weiss, M. C.et al. 2016. Dispensing doctor practices and community pharmacies: exploring the quality of pharmaceutical services. Primary Health Care Research and Development 17(1), pp. 42-55. (10.1017/S1463423615000092)
- Riley, R. and Weiss, M. C. 2016. A qualitative thematic review: emotional labour in healthcare settings. Journal of Advanced Nursing 72(1), pp. 6-17. (10.1111/jan.12738)
2015
- Weiss, M. C.et al. 2015. Medication decision making and patient outcomes in GP, nurse and pharmacist prescriber consultations. Primary Health Care Research and Development 16(5), pp. 513-527. (10.1017/S146342361400053X)
Patient Decision-making about taking Medicines
- Shared decision-making involving decisions about medicines (concordance) and the extent to which this occurs in practice.
- The use of patient decision aids to facilitate patient involvement in decision-making.
- The rationality of patient accounts when deciding not to start anti-hypertensive medication.
- Women’s views on the effect of an increased range of suppliers of emergency contraception.
Health Care Professionals’ Decision-making
- Non-clinical factors that influence the decision-making of general practitioners, such as why general practitioners prescribe when it is not clinically necessary.
- How cost to the patient and overall health care costs influence general practitioners’ clinical decisions.
- How pharmacy counter assistants facilitate or hinder over-the-counter medicine sales.
- Nurses’ and doctors’ views of patient expectation for an antibiotic.
- How changes in the health care system have affected the professional status of doctors and pharmacists.
Use of Education to Change Health Care Professionals’ Behaviour
- To evaluate the use of educational interventions to improve the way health care professionals communicate with patients.
- Adult learning and innovation in teaching practice as methods of changing health care professional behaviour.
- The appropriateness of different outcome measures to assess the extent to which shared-decision making about medicine decisions has occurred.
