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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7842
Email
murray.tilyard@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Professor of General Practice
Department
Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BSc MB ChB DipObst MD(Otago) FRNZCGP(Dist)
Research summary
General Practice research focusing on research translation and patient safety, especially in medicines use.
Memberships
CEO BPACnz, BPAC Inc., Southlink Health Inc., NZ Formulary
Clinical
General Practice

Research

I have built a career around making research useful to primary care clinicians. My clinical and research experiences have been intertwined since very early in my career. My research was initially driven by questions about my own clinical practice, then by questions about how and why my clinical practice was different to the practices of my colleagues, then by a need to find and make available the best research evidence to inform our clinical practices. Most recently I have researched changed clinical behaviour following information about best research evidence.

My research interest in patient safety has grown throughout my career and I now think of safety as the major challenge for our health system presently and into the future. I led the New Zealand arm of the first international primary care patient safety study that set up a reporting system so that GPs could report safety incidents that they had observed in their practices.

Publications

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

Tomlin, A., Woods, D. J., Lambie, A., Eskildsen, L., Ng, J., & Tilyard, M. (2020). Ethnic inequality in non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-associated harm in New Zealand: A national population-based cohort study. Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, 29, 881-889. doi: 10.1002/pds.5028 Journal - Research Article

Tomlin, A. M., Woods, D. J., Reid, J. J., & Tilyard, M. W. (2020). Trends in prescription medicine use by older people in New Zealand 2010-2015: A national population-based study. New Zealand Medical Journal, 133(1513), 61-72. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal Journal - Research Article

Fountain, J. S., Tomlin, A. M., Reith, D. M., & Tilyard, M. W. (2020). Fatal toxicity indices for medicine-related deaths in New Zealand, 2008-2013. Drug Safety, 43, 223-232. doi: 10.1007/s40264-019-00885-4 Journal - Research Article

Reith, D., Tomlin, A., Fountain, J., & Tilyard, M. (2019). Pharmacovigilance study of clozapine in New Zealand using three outcomes databases. Proceedings of the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT) and the Population Approach Group of Australia and New Zealand (PAGANZ) Joint Scientific Meeting: Shared Horizons: Optimizing Drug Response to Improve Patient Outcomes. (pp. 8). Retrieved from https://www.asceptasm.com Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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