Sarah Alderson

Fantastic work by Dr Su Wood and Dr Owen Thomas , supported by Dr Liz Glidewell, Prof Theo Raynor & myself, undertaken at @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Widespread inappropriate prescribing for older people with reduced kidney function: what are the harms and how do we tackle them? A scoping review for primary care Background Increasing age is associated with reductions in kidney function and increasing polypharmacy. Most medicines are eliminated through the kidney, meaning older patients are at risk of medicati...

New paper! 📣

Inappropriate prescribing is common in older adults which puts them at greater risk of adverse effects. However, strategies to address are limited, particularly the lack of agreement on how to measure kidney function in this group!

Read here 👇
qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

Our toolkit 🧰 contains resources for hospitals, healthcare professionals and patients to support implementation and is available to all - please share!

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@hannahrossington.bsky.social @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

New paper alert! 🚨

Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme (YCRBCIP) conducted a rigorous consensus process with clinicians and patients to develop quality indicators to support opioid stewardship for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery 👇

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🧑‍⚕️However, we found that primary care prescribers also need systematized creatinine clearance calculation in electronic health records for easy coding to further improve patient safety & reduce harms from medicines in older age 🩺

@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social

Creatinine clearance, reduced kidney function, and optimizing prescribing safety through practice feedback: a mixed methods study AbstractBackground. Kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm from raised blood levels of many medicines. Prescribing is often inappropria

📣 New paper published❗️

🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊

📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2]

📖 Read more here 👇

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Pleased with my time - managed to knock 30 minutes off my practice run 😀. Rather tired and sore now 😅 - might allow myself a rest tomorrow 🤣

Lovely weather and a great day at the @heights_ultra_trail festival with the @slaithwaitestriders gang! My longest run yet - the Heights 27km Wessenden trail (28.5km on Garmin) 💪

Chelmsford Central #ParkRun no. 16 🏃
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s

#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity

🙋 New paper alert! 📣
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social

The @arc-yharc.bsky.social YouTube channel has lots of fantastic short videos to explore on a wide range of improvement science topics to explore 📺🩺📈

YouTube video by NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Science Snapshot- Rapid Ethnography

A great research snapshot by Dr Qandeel Shah on how she obtained rich and informative data using rapid ethnography in her PhD within a limited timeframe 👇

#ImpSci #ResearchMethods

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Her research on "De-implementation of low-value practices (clinical and non- clinical) in UK mental health services: A patient perspective" will be available to read soon(-ish!)

Proud supervisor moment! 🤩

So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏

Park Run no. 15 for me & a very hot but lovely one! This is a nice route and there is a fair bit of shade on the way round too. I got to meet one of my lovely online running friends in person for the first time. We nattered all the way round & nattered over brunch afterwards. 😀
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun

Stunning Buck Moon rising tonight 🌝

This is a lovely event! Hoping the smoking dragons will be there again 😄
#IMC2025

The best people are 😉

Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change

Congratulations to Noah and Robbie on this recent publication on using audit to identify where improvement is needed and providing feedback to healthcare professionals.
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That was a hot ParkRun number 14! Far too hot for this (now) northern lass 🥵 Lovely route though and I was so grateful for the few bits of shade 😎

#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist

Four students talk in front of the Great Hall

The University has placed in the top 100 universities in the world for the 8th year in a row, moving up to 13th position among the 90 UK institutions on the list 🙌

The QS World University Rankings were released today, and Leeds is ranked 86th in the world.

Fern Harvey’s fab poster presentation of her systematic review on process evaluations for complex intervention trials. Better reporting of context, mechanisms of action and fidelity would enable greater learning about successful interventions #ImpSci #EIE2025 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

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A fantastic opening to the conference by Leah Bürhmann and @annetteboaz.bsky.social 👏

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On the train to Newcastle for #EIE2025 😀 Looking forward to catching up with colleagues old & new

Absolutely stunning! I enjoy crocheting but definitely do not have the patience for something as fine as this.