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Ingrid Sketris

Professor, College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University
Verified email at dal.ca
Cited by 6636

From “retailers” to health care providers: transforming the role of community pharmacists in chronic disease management

…, S Benrimoj, M Bouvy, K Farris, P Noyce, I Sketris - Health policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Community pharmacists are the third largest healthcare professional group in the world after
physicians and nurses. Despite their considerable training, community pharmacists are the …

Neoral monitoring by simplified sparse sampling area under the concentration-time curve: its relationship to acute rejection and cyclosporine nephrotoxicity early after …

K Mahalati, P Belitsky, I Sketris, K West… - Transplantation, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Background. Cyclosporine (CsA) dosing is traditionally based on trough blood levels (C 0)
rather than area under the concentration-time curve (AUC), although AUC correlates better …

Effectiveness of the STOPP/START (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions/Screening Tool to Alert doctors to the Right Treatment) …

…, J Hayden, S Byrne, IS Sketris - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
What is known and objective STOPP / START are explicit screening tools that identify
potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults. Our objective was to update our 2013 …

Identifying, understanding and overcoming barriers to medication error reporting in hospitals: a focus group study

N Hartnell, N MacKinnon, I Sketris… - BMJ quality & …, 2012 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Ingrid Sketris1, … During the time of this study, Ingrid Sketris held a chair in health
services research funded by CIHR/CHSRF cosponsored by NHSRF. …

[HTML][HTML] CNODES: the Canadian network for observational drug effect studies

…, PJ Martens, JM Paterson, RW Platt, I Sketris… - Open …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Although administrative health care databases have long been used to evaluate
adverse drug effects, responses to drug safety signals have been slow and uncoordinated. We …

Independent pharmacist prescribing in Canada

…, T Ma, J Fisher, IS Sketris - … Journal/Revue des …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: While pharmacists are trained in the selection and management of prescription
medicines, traditionally their role in prescribing has been limited. In the past 5 years, many …

Association between incretin-based drugs and the risk of acute pancreatitis

…, DA Henry, J LeLorier, AR Levy, IS Sketris - JAMA internal …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The association between incretin-based drugs, such as dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4)
inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists, and acute pancreatitis is …

Approaching the therapeutic window for cyclosporine in kidney transplantation: a prospective study

…, K West, B Kiberd, A Fraser, I Sketris… - Journal of the …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Neoral dosing is traditionally based on cyclosporine (CyA) trough levels (C 0). Four-h area
under the curve (AUC 0-4) for Neoral in the early posttransplantation period was shown …

[HTML][HTML] Population prevalence of high dose paracetamol in dispensed paracetamol/opioid prescription combinations: an observational study

R Clark, JE Fisher, IS Sketris, GM Johnston - BMC clinical pharmacology, 2012 - Springer
Background Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is generally considered a safe medication, but is
associated with hepatotoxicity at doses above doses of 4.0g/day, and even below this daily …

Deprescribing cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in dementia: guideline summary

…, W Thompson, N Herrmann, I Sketris… - Medical Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Cholinesterase inhibitors (Ch EI s) and memantine are medications used to treat
the symptoms of specific types of dementia. Their benefits and harms can change over time…