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Smeaton, T. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-8119
McElwaine, P.
Cullen, J.
Santos-Martinez, M. J.
Deasy, E.
Widdowson, M.
Grimes, T. C.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Pharmacy Department Tallaght University Hospital
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First Online: 3 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: TS, PM, JC, MJS-M, ED, MW and TCG have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
: TS received funding from Tallaght University Hospital Pharmacy Department to complete the M.Sc. (Hospital Pharmacy) degree, of which this study formed a part, at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. TCG received no financial support for the conduct of this study. TCG has received speaker honoraria and research grants within the relevant period, none of which are related to the topic or the conduct of this study or the preparation of this manuscript.
: Granted by St James’s Hospital/Tallaght University Hospital Joint Research Ethics Committee, who classified the study as an audit review.
: Explicit patient consent was neither sought nor required as data collection occurred in the context of the standard pharmaceutical care routinely provided to patients at the study site. Patient consent for the calculation and management of CCI score, medicine count and prevalence was not required as these were carried out on fully anonymized data, which falls outside General Data Protection and Health Research regulations.
