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Report: Deprescribing medicines in older people living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: the TAILOR evidence synthesis (2022)
Journal Article
Reeve, J., Maden, M., Hill, R., Turk, A., Mahtani, K., Wong, G., Lasserson, D., Krska, J., Mangin, D., Byng, R., Wallace, E., & Ranson, E. (2022). Report: Deprescribing medicines in older people living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: the TAILOR evidence synthesis. Health Technology Assessment, 26(32), VII-108. https://doi.org/10.3310/AAFO2475

Background: Tackling problematic polypharmacy requires tailoring the use of medicines to individual needs and circumstances. This may involve stopping medicines (deprescribing) but patients and clinicians report uncertainty on how best to do this. Th... Read More about Report: Deprescribing medicines in older people living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: the TAILOR evidence synthesis.

Feasibility and effectiveness of deprescribing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs; systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Soni, A., Thiyagarajan, A., & Reeve, J. (2022). Feasibility and effectiveness of deprescribing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs; systematic review and meta-analysis. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15997

Background and Aims
2.4 million adults in England were dispensed a benzodiazepine or Z-drug (BZRA) in 2017/18, and more than 250,000 patients in the UK take BZRAs beyond the recommended duration. Deprescribing is a clinician-guided process of withdr... Read More about Feasibility and effectiveness of deprescribing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs; systematic review and meta-analysis.

An evaluation of community placements for GP registrars in Yorkshire and the Humber: ‘a home visit… not to a patient but to the community’ (2022)
Journal Article
Lang, J., Graffy, H., & Reeve, J. (in press). An evaluation of community placements for GP registrars in Yorkshire and the Humber: ‘a home visit… not to a patient but to the community’. Education for Primary Care, https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2022.2027274

Background: GP registrars are required to demonstrate capabilities in ‘community orientation’, reflecting skills in developing and working with services that respond to community needs. These skills have sometimes been seen as vague and difficult to... Read More about An evaluation of community placements for GP registrars in Yorkshire and the Humber: ‘a home visit… not to a patient but to the community’.

The craft of generalism clinical skills and attitudes for whole person care (2021)
Journal Article
Lynch, J. M., van Driel, M., Meredith, P., Stange, K. C., Getz, L., Reeve, J., …Dowrick, C. (in press). The craft of generalism clinical skills and attitudes for whole person care. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13624

Rationale, aims and objectives: Generalists manage a broad range of biomedical and biographical knowledge as part of each clinical encounter, often in multiple encounters over time. The sophistication of this broad integrative work is often misunders... Read More about The craft of generalism clinical skills and attitudes for whole person care.

Understanding the impact of professional motivation on the workforce crisis in medicine: a rapid review (2021)
Journal Article
Andah, E., Essang, B., Friend, C., Greenley, S., Harvey, K., Spears, M., & Reeve, J. (2021). Understanding the impact of professional motivation on the workforce crisis in medicine: a rapid review. BJGP Open, 5(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0005

Background: The NHS is facing a workforce crisis. Responses to date have focused on improving recruitment of staff, but less attention has been paid to retention. Aim: To conduct a rapid review using Rosabeth Moss Kanter's three Ms model of workforce... Read More about Understanding the impact of professional motivation on the workforce crisis in medicine: a rapid review.

Improving the Reporting of Primary Care Research: An International Survey of Researchers (2021)
Journal Article
Phillips, W. R., Sturgiss, E., Hunik, L., Glasziou, P. P., olde Hartman, T., Orkin, A., Reeve, J., Russell, G. M., & van Weel, C. (2021). Improving the Reporting of Primary Care Research: An International Survey of Researchers. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 34(1), 12-21. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200266

PURPOSE: To assess opportunities to improve reporting of primary care (PC) research to better meet the needs of its varied users. METHODS: International, interprofessional online survey of PC researchers and users, 2018 to 2019. Respondents used Like... Read More about Improving the Reporting of Primary Care Research: An International Survey of Researchers.

Optimising planned medical education strategies to develop learners' person-centredness: A realist review (2021)
Journal Article
Bansal, A., Greenley, S., Mitchell, C., Park, S., Shearn, K., & Reeve, J. (2021). Optimising planned medical education strategies to develop learners' person-centredness: A realist review. Medical Education, https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14707

Context: Person-centeredness is a stated aim for medical education; however, studies suggest this is not being achieved. There is a gap in our understanding of how, why and in what circumstances medical education interventions that aim to develop per... Read More about Optimising planned medical education strategies to develop learners' person-centredness: A realist review.

Fear of childbirth measurement: appraisal of the content overlap of four instruments (2020)
Journal Article
Martin, C., Jones, C., Marshall, C. A., Huang, C., Reeve, J., Fleming, M. P., König, J., & Jomeen, J. (2022). Fear of childbirth measurement: appraisal of the content overlap of four instruments. Journal of reproductive and infant psychology, 40(4), 329-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2020.1861226

Objective: To evaluate empirically the degree of content overlap between four self-report measures of fear of childbirth (FoC) identified as ‘best in class’ by a recent review. Background: FoC and tokophobia is an area of increasing clinical concern... Read More about Fear of childbirth measurement: appraisal of the content overlap of four instruments.

Avoiding harm: Tackling problematic polypharmacy through strengthening expert generalist practice (2020)
Journal Article
Reeve, J. (in press). Avoiding harm: Tackling problematic polypharmacy through strengthening expert generalist practice. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14531

Problematic polypharmacy is a growing challenge. Medication that is intended to improve patients' health and wellbeing is instead becoming part of the problem. The way we practice medicine has become a driver for the problem. Dealing with the challen... Read More about Avoiding harm: Tackling problematic polypharmacy through strengthening expert generalist practice.

Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: A realist review (2020)
Journal Article
Tierney, S., Wong, G., Roberts, N., Boylan, A. M., Park, S., Abrams, R., Reeve, J., Williams, V., & Mahtani, K. R. (2020). Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: A realist review. BMC medicine, 18(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-1510-7

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: Social prescribing is a way of addressing the 'non-medical' needs (e.g. loneliness, debt, housing problems) that can affect people's health and well-being. Connector schemes (e.g. delivered by care navigators or link... Read More about Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: A realist review.

What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review. (2019)
Journal Article
Dell Olio, M., Pask, S., Seymour, J., & Reeve, J. (2019). What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review. European journal for person centered healthcare, 7(4),

Introduction
Growing numbers of people now live with long term conditions. For each person, the challenges are multiple and unique to that individual. In recognition of this, health policy places greater emphasis on the delivery of person-centred ca... Read More about What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review..

Primary care redesign for person-centred care: Delivering an international generalist revolution (2018)
Journal Article
Reeve, J. (2018). Primary care redesign for person-centred care: Delivering an international generalist revolution. Australian journal of primary health, 24(4), 330-336. https://doi.org/10.1071/py18019

© La Trobe University. Person-centred primary care is a priority for patients, healthcare practitioners and health policy. Despite this, data suggest person-centred care is still not consistently achieved-and indeed, that in some areas, care may be w... Read More about Primary care redesign for person-centred care: Delivering an international generalist revolution.