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Samantha Hollingworth
100 Publications50 Research Themes48 Open Access
Research Overview & Focus
Global health challenges and medication use patterns across diverse settings highlight significant trends in public health interventions. Studies reveal how medication adherence varies by demographics and geographic regions, impacting outcomes like mental health and cardiovascular disease. Advanced pharmacological studies demonstrate the efficacy of drugs in managing chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, while recent epidemiological research underscores the importance of understanding drug use patterns to improve healthcare policies. Furthermore, research on adverse drug reactions highlights the need for robust monitoring systems to prevent harm.
Key Research Themes (50)
Life Sciences
Antibiotic Use and Resistance
Health Sciences
Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
Health Sciences
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Health Sciences
Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases
Health Sciences
Birth, Development, and Health
Health Sciences
Bone health and osteoporosis research
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Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Social Sciences
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Physical Sciences
Climate Change and Health Impacts
Health Sciences
Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
Health Sciences
Diabetes Management and Education
Health Sciences
Diabetes Treatment and Management
Health Sciences
Diet and metabolism studies
Health Sciences
Ethics in Clinical Research
Health Sciences
Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments
Health Sciences
Global Health and Epidemiology
Health Sciences
Global Maternal and Child Health
Social Sciences
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Health Sciences
Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Social Sciences
Healthcare Systems and Reforms
Health Sciences
Heart Failure Treatment and Management
Health Sciences
Infant Nutrition and Health
Health Sciences
Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
Health Sciences
Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
Social Sciences
Mental Health Treatment and Access
Health Sciences
Migraine and Headache Studies
Social Sciences
Migration, Health and Trauma
Health Sciences
Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
Health Sciences
Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
Health Sciences
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Health Sciences
Nursing Roles and Practices
Health Sciences
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Health Sciences
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Health Sciences
Pancreatic function and diabetes
Health Sciences
Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Physical Sciences
Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Social Sciences
Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Life Sciences
Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
Health Sciences
Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
Health Sciences
Pharmaceutical studies and practices
Health Sciences
Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
Health Sciences
Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment
Life Sciences
Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
Health Sciences
Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Life Sciences
Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
Health Sciences
Schizophrenia research and treatment
Social Sciences
Sleep and related disorders
Physical Sciences
Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
Physical Sciences
Traffic and Road Safety
Health Sciences
Treatment of Major Depression
Publications (100)
Economic evaluations of non-communicable diseases conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa: a critical review of data sources
Open AccessAntimicrobial stewardship: Prescribing across the primary care health professions
Open AccessNurse practitioner and midwife antibiotic prescribing in Australia
Open AccessDynamics of Patient-Based Benefit-Risk Assessment of Medicines in Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review
Open AccessHow Least Developed to Lower-Middle Income Countries Use Health Technology Assessment: A Scoping Review
Open AccessAntibiotic use in Australian and Swedish primary care: a cross-country comparison
Open AccessEstimation of cardiac QTc intervals in people prescribed antipsychotics: a comparison of correction factors
Open AccessThe impact of COVID-19 on antidepressant sales and prescription dispensing in Australia
Patient-based benefit-risk assessment of medicines: development, refinement, and validation of a content search strategy to retrieve relevant studies
Open AccessLong term impact of the WHI studies on information-seeking and decision-making in menopause symptoms management: a longitudinal analysis of questions to a medicines call centre
Open AccessTrends in Systemic Antifungal Use in Australia, 2005–2016: a Time-Series Analysis
Open AccessHealth technology assessment in sub-Saharan Africa: a descriptive analysis and narrative synthesis
Open AccessClozapine use and prevalence in Australia 2016–2020
Opioid medication prescribing in Queensland, 1997‒2018: a population study
Using Prescription and Wastewater Data to Estimate the Correction Factors of Atenolol, Carbamazepine, and Naproxen for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Applications
Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data
Open AccessTrends in Australian dental prescribing of antibiotics: 2005–2016
Open AccessDisease modifying therapies for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: Use and costs in Australia (1996-2019)
Research governance authorisation: the next frontier
Metformin reduces 12-month change in body weight among people newly commenced on clozapine: a retrospective naturalistic cohort study
Open AccessDoes Switching Antipsychotics Ameliorate Weight Gain in Patients With Severe Mental Illness? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Open AccessCommunity-based integrated care versus hospital outpatient care for managing patients with complex type 2 diabetes: costing analysis*
Open AccessAntidepressant use in Australia and Sweden—A cross‐country comparison
Pharmaceutical opioids utilisation by dose, formulation, and socioeconomic status in Queensland, Australia: a population study over 22 years
Health technology assessment and priority setting for universal health coverage: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ capacity, needs, policy areas of demand and perspectives in Nigeria
Open AccessDuration of opioid use and association with socioeconomic status, daily dose and formulation: a two-decade population study in Queensland, Australia
Real-world questions and concerns about disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs): a retrospective analysis of questions to a medicine call center
Open AccessHealth Technology Assessment and priority setting for Universal Health Coverage: A qualitative study of stakeholders capacity, needs, policy areas of demand and perspectives in Nigeria
Open AccessDental opioid prescribing rates after the up-scheduling of codeine in Australia
Open AccessHealth technology assessment capacity at national level in sub-Saharan Africa: an initial survey of stakeholders
Open AccessBortezomib use and outcomes for the treatment of multiple myeloma
What do we need to know? Data sources to support evidence-based decisions using health technology assessment in Ghana
Open AccessMultiple opioid prescribers: A genuine quest for treatment rather than aberrant behaviour. A two-decade population-based study
Consumption of medicines used for gastric acid-related disorders in Australia and South Korea: a cross-country comparison
Implementing health technology assessment in Ghana to support universal health coverage: building relationships that focus on people, policy, and process
Open AccessAntifungal agents for invasive candidiasis in non-neutropenic critically ill adults: What do the guidelines recommend?
Open AccessStrategies to counter antipsychotic-associated weight gain in patients with schizophrenia
Open AccessWhy aren’t Australian pharmacists supplying naloxone? Findings from a qualitative study
Longitudinal impact of the Women’s Health Initiative study on hormone therapy use in Australia
How prepared are pharmacists to provide over-the-counter naloxone? The role of previous education and new training opportunities
Open AccessAvailability, Price, and Affordability of Essential Medicines to Manage Noncommunicable Diseases: A National Survey From Nepal
Open AccessMedicine use during acute and chronic postinjury periods in whiplash-injured individuals
Open AccessCost-effectiveness Analysis of Routine Screening Using Massively Parallel Sequencing for Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young in a Pediatric Diabetes Cohort: Reduced Health System Costs and Improved Patient Quality of Life
Open AccessForecasting the amount and cost of medicine to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus in Nepal using knowledge on medicine usage from a developed country
Does consumer medicines interest reflect medicines use? An observational study comparing medicines call center queries with medicines use
Prescription Opioid Fatalities: Examining Why the Healer Could be the Culprit
Clozapine-related neutropenia, myocarditis and cardiomyopathy adverse event reports in Australia 1993–2014
Patterns in use and costs of conventional and biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in Australia.
2018Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
Prescribed Dose of Opioids and Overdose: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Unintentional Prescription Opioid Overdose
Treatment of clozapine‐associated obesity and diabetes with exenatide in adults with schizophrenia: <scp>A</scp> randomized controlled trial ( <scp>CODEX</scp> )
The bidirectional relationship between vasomotor symptoms and depression across the menopausal transition: a systematic review of longitudinal studies
Opioid analgesic use in Australia and The Netherlands: a cross-country comparison
Using pharmacy management systems for research: survival outcomes for lenalidomide in multiple myeloma in the clinical setting
International trends in clozapine use: a study in 17 countries
Open AccessImpact of a general practitioner-led integrated model of care on the cost of potentially preventable diabetes-related hospitalisations
Prescribing patterns of analgesics and other medicines by dental practitioners in Australia from 2001 to 2012
The impact of clozapine on hospital use: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
Open AccessTriptan use in Australia 1997-2015: A pharmacoepidemiological study
Use of Healthcare Services by Patients with Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal: A Qualitative Study with Healthcare Providers
Open AccessEzetimibe: Use, costs, and adverse events in Australia
Open AccessCase conference primary-secondary care planning at end of life can reduce the cost of hospitalisations
Open AccessAssociations of Guideline Recommended Medications for Acute Coronary Syndromes With Fall-Related Hospitalizations and Cardiovascular Events in Older Women With Ischemic Heart Disease
Open AccessA Review of Medication Use as an Indicator of Human Health Impact in Environmentally Stressed Areas
Open Access‘Repeat’ prescriptions and antibiotic resistance: findings from Australian community pharmacy
Understanding quality use of medicines in refugee communities in Australian primary care: a qualitative study
Open AccessPrescribing patterns of dental practitioners in Australia from 2001 to 2012. Antimicrobials
Open AccessGlucagon-like peptide-1 agonists combating clozapine-associated obesity and diabetes
Pharmacy workforce to prevent and manage non-communicable diseases in developing nations: The case of Nepal
Open AccessConsumer knowledge and perceptions about antibiotics and upper respiratory tract infections in a community pharmacy
Dopamine Agonists: Time Pattern of Adverse Effects Reporting in Australia
Open AccessClozapine in the community: Improved access or risky free-for-all?
Increasing Clozapine Dispensing Trends in Queensland, Australia 2004–2013
Open AccessTreatment of clozapine-associated obesity and diabetes with exenatide (CODEX) in adults with schizophrenia: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial
Open AccessOpioid analgesic prescribing in Australia: a focus on gender and age
Clozapine-induced myocarditis: Separating the wheat from the chaff
Multiple sclerosis disease modifying medicine utilisation in Australia
Effects of decentralisation and health system reform on health workforce and quality‐of‐care in Indonesia, 1993–2007
Open AccessNational trends in the community prescribing of second-generation antipsychotic medications in Australian children and youth: the incomplete story
Prescribing databases can be used to monitor trends in opioid analgesic prescribing in Australia
Open AccessPharmacoepidemiology and the Australian regional prevalence of multiple sclerosis
A new model of integrated primary-secondary care for complex diabetes in the community: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Open AccessThe prescribing of antiepileptic drugs for pregnant Australian women
Psychiatric Drug Prescribing in Elderly Australians: Time for Action
Open AccessUtilization of anti‐Parkinson drugs in Australia: 1995–2009
Australian National Trends in Stimulant Dispensing: 2002–2009
Prescribing trends in cognition enhancing drugs in Australia
Open AccessMarked increase in proton pump inhibitors use in Australia
Affective and anxiety disorders: prevalence, treatment and antidepressant medication use.
Patterns of Antipsychotic Medication Use in Australia 2002–2007
Secondary Prevention of Osteoporosis in Australia
Anxiolytic, hypnotic and sedative medication use in Australia
Changing patterns of antiepileptic drug use in pregnant Australian women
Antiepileptic drugs in Australia: 2002–2007
Sociodemographic correlates of antidepressant utilisation in Australia
2009Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentDOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02522.x
In Australia are people born in other countries at higher risk of road trauma than locally born people?
Continuous intrafetal infusion of prostaglandin E2 prematurely activates the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and induces parturition in sheep.
Chronic administration of low doses of adrenocorticotropin to hypophysectomized fetal sheep leads to normal term labor.
Effect of Late Hypothalamo‐Pituitary Disconnection on the Development of the HPA Axis in the Ovine Fetus and the Initiation of Parturition
Open AccessThe trigger for parturition in sheep: fetal hypothalamus or placenta?
1991Infant Nutrition and Health
Prostaglandin G/H synthase activity in ovine cotyledons: a gestational profile.
1990Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
Academic Metrics
DepartmentDepartment of Pharmacy Practice
Total Publications100
Research Themes50
Open Access Papers48
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology