Dr Sharon Leitch
Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 21 261 9996
- sharon.leitch@otago.ac.nz
- Position
- Senior Lecturer
- Department
- Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MB ChB DCH PGDipGP PhD FRNZCGP
- Research summary
- Safe medication use in primary care
- Teaching
- Co-ordinator of GENA821 Research Methods in Primary Health Care
- Memberships
- Departmental Research Convener
- Postgraduate Education Committee
- Clinical
- General Practitioner at Dunedin Health Centre
Research
Sharon is exploring ways of improving patient safety in primary care. This work aims to inform patients about their risk of medication harm, promoting patient self-efficacy and facilitating shared decision-making between patients, their whānau and clinicians.
Sharon is also involved with the establishment of the Southern Primary Care Research Network. She is interested in optimising the use of routinely collected healthcare data in research.
Publications
Gu, J., Ross, J., & Leitch, S. (2023). Patient representation in New Zealand general practice and rural health case-based teaching: A quality improvement exercise. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC23070
Reith, D. M., Leitch, S., Eggleton, K., Wallis, K., Lillis, S., Williamson, M., & Cunningham, W. (2023). Treatment harms in paediatric primary care. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 20(14), 6378. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20146378
Yogarajan, V., Dobbie, G., Leitch, S., Keegan, T. T., Bensemann, J., Witbrock, M., … Reith, D. (2022). Data and model bias in artificial intelligence for healthcare applications in New Zealand. Frontiers in Computer Science, 4, 1070493. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.1070493
Leitch, S., Dovey, S., Cunningham, W., Wallis, K., Eggleton, K., Lillis, S., McMenamin, A., Williamson, M., Reith, D., Samaranayaka, A., & Tilyard, M. (2021). Epidemiology of healthcare harm in New Zealand general practice: A retrospective records review study. BMJ Open, 11, e048316. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048316
Leitch, S., Zeng, J., Smith, A., & Stokes, T. (2021). Medication risk management and health equity in New Zealand general practice: A retrospective cross-sectional study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 20, 119. doi: 10.1186/s12939-021-01461-y
Gu, J., Ross, J., & Leitch, S. (2023). Patient representation in New Zealand general practice and rural health case-based teaching: A quality improvement exercise. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC23070
Journal - Research Article
Reith, D. M., Leitch, S., Eggleton, K., Wallis, K., Lillis, S., Williamson, M., & Cunningham, W. (2023). Treatment harms in paediatric primary care. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 20(14), 6378. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20146378
Journal - Research Article
Yogarajan, V., Dobbie, G., Leitch, S., Keegan, T. T., Bensemann, J., Witbrock, M., … Reith, D. (2022). Data and model bias in artificial intelligence for healthcare applications in New Zealand. Frontiers in Computer Science, 4, 1070493. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.1070493
Journal - Research Article
Barak, Y., Leitch, S., & Glue, P. (2021). The Great Escape: Centenarians' exceptional health. Aging Clinical & Experimental Research, 33(3), 513-520. doi: 10.1007/s40520-020-01552-w
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., Dovey, S. M., Cunningham, W. K., Smith, A. J., Zeng, J., Reith, D. M., … Williamson, M. I., & Lillis, S. (2021). Medication-related harm in New Zealand general practice: A retrospective records review. British Journal of General Practice, e626-e633. doi: 10.3399/bjgp.2020.1126
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., Dovey, S., Cunningham, W., Wallis, K., Eggleton, K., Lillis, S., McMenamin, A., Williamson, M., Reith, D., Samaranayaka, A., & Tilyard, M. (2021). Epidemiology of healthcare harm in New Zealand general practice: A retrospective records review study. BMJ Open, 11, e048316. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048316
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., Smith, A., Crengle, S., & Stokes, T. (2021). The views of New Zealand general practitioners and patients on a proposed risk assessment and communication tool: A qualitative study using Normalisation Process Theory. Implementation Science Communications, 2, 16. doi: 10.1186/s43058-021-00120-1
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., Zeng, J., Smith, A., & Stokes, T. (2021). Medication risk management and health equity in New Zealand general practice: A retrospective cross-sectional study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 20, 119. doi: 10.1186/s12939-021-01461-y
Journal - Research Article
Barak, Y., Leitch, S., & Greco, P. (2019). Identifying hoarding disorder in the elderly using the interRAI. Archives of Gerontology & Geriatrics, 80, 95-97. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2018.10.014
Journal - Research Article
Young, A., Tordoff, J., Leitch, S., & Smith, A. (2019). Patient-focused medicines information: General practitioners’ and pharmacists’ views on websites and leaflets. Health Education Journal, 78(3), 340-351. doi: 10.1177/0017896918811373
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., Dovey, S. M., Samaranayaka, A., Reith, D. M., Wallis, K. A., Eggleton, K. S., … Williamson, M. I., … Tilyard, M. W. (2018). Characteristics of a stratified random sample of New Zealand general practices. Journal of Primary Health Care, 10(2), 114-124. doi: 10.1071/HC17089
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., Glue, P., Gray, A. R., Greco, P., & Barak, Y. (2018). Comparison of psychosocial variables associated with loneliness in centenarian vs elderly populations in New Zealand. JAMA Network Open, 1(6), e183880. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.3880
Journal - Research Article
Wallis, K. A., Eggleton, K. S., Dovey, S. M., Leitch, S., Cunningham, W. K., & Williamson, M. I. (2018). Research using electronic health records: Balancing confidentiality and public good. Journal of Primary Health Care, 10(4), 288-291. doi: 10.1071/HC18040
Journal - Research Article
Young, A., Tordoff, J., Leitch, S., & Smith, A. (2018). Do health professionals tell patients what they want to know about their medicines? Health Education Journal, 77(7), 762-777. doi: 10.1177/0017896918763679
Journal - Research Article
Young, A., Tordoff, J., Leitch, S., & Smith, A. (2018). Doctors and pharmacists provision and opinions of medicines information leaflets in New Zealand. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 40(3), 676-685. doi: 10.1007/s11096-018-0635-7
Journal - Research Article
Lawless, S., White, P., Murdoch, P., & Leitch, S. (2011). (Preventing) two birds with one stone: Improving vitamin D levels in the elderly. Journal of Primary Health Care, 3(2), 150-152.
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., & Dovey, S. (2010). Review of registration requirements for new part-time doctors in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. Journal of Primary Health Care, 2(4), 273-280.
Journal - Research Article
Jones, D. G., & Sagee, S. (2001). Xenotransplantation: Hope or delusion? Biologist, 48(3), 129-132.
Journal - Research Article
Leitch, S., Smith, A., Zeng, J., & Stokes, T. (2021). Using an information package to reduce patients' risk of renal damage: Protocol for a randomized feasibility trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(4), e29161. doi: 10.2196/29161
Journal - Research Other
Barak, Y., Leitch, S., Greco, P., & Glue, P. (2020). Fatigue, sleep and depression: An exploratory interRAI study of older adults [Short communication]. Psychiatry Research, 284, 112772. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112772
Journal - Research Other
Barak, Y., Leitch, S., Gale, C., & Glue, P. (2019). No seasonal influence on cognitive performance in a national sample of older adults in New Zealand [Brief report]. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 29, e201-e204. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12733
Journal - Research Other
Dovey, S. M., Leitch, S., Wallis, K. A., Eggleton, K. S., Cunningham, W. K., Williamson, M. I., … Tilyard, M. W., Reith, D. M., Samaranayaka, A., & Hall, J. E. (2017). Epidemiology of patient harms in New Zealand: Protocol of a general practice records review study. JMIR Research Protocols, 6(1), e10. doi: 10.2196/resprot.6696
Journal - Research Other
Dovey, S. M., & Leitch, S. (2016). Triggering safer general practice care. BMJ Quality & Safety, 26(4), 259-260. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005660
Journal - Research Other
Leitch, S. (2016). New Zealand needs a Practice Based Research Network. Journal of Primary Health Care, 8(1), 9-12. doi: 10.1071/HC15045
Journal - Research Other
Leitch, S. (2015). General practitioners should allow use of anonymised patient records for research: The 'yes' case. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(3), 251-253. [Commentary].
Journal - Research Other