Orla Macdonald
Research Pharmacist
Orla is a specialist psychiatric pharmacist and an accredited member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists. In the Bennett Institute, her research focuses on exploring prescribing trends of psychotropic medicines, especially within vulnerable populations such as patients with learning disability or autism. Orla has a BA (Pharm) from Trinity College, Dublin and a Clinical Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy from Aston University. She is also the Lead Research Pharmacist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Papers by Orla Macdonald
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antipsychotic Prescribing
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using 48 million adults’ primary care records in England through OpenSAFELY
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics
- Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
- Identifying Patterns of Clinical Interest in Clinicians' Treatment Preferences: Hypothesis-free Data Science Approach to Prioritizing Prescribing Outliers for Clinical Review