Miss Mhairi Kerr

Research Fellow UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences

City East Campus (P6-24)

email Mhairi.Kerr@unisa.edu.au

About me

Mhairi is a Statistician working at the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre within the UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences unit.

She has considerable experience in the use and analysis of linked health data and she has a particular interest in novel statistical methodologies to monitor the effectiveness and safety of medicine use in large administrative health claims datasets.

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Research

Research focus

Public Health and Health Services
Clinical Sciences
Medical and Health Sciences
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Widagdo, I, Kerr, M, Ellett, LK, Schlegel, C, Sadeqzadeh, E, Wang, A, Clarke, AL & Pratt, N 2025, 'Validity of the updated Rx-Risk Index as a disease identification and risk-adjustment tool for use in observational health studies', Clinical Interventions in Aging, vol. 20, pp. 309-323. Open access
2024	Andrade, AQ, Kerr, M & Roughead, EE 2024, 'Data-driven interventions for an emergency preparedness system: a national experience in Australia', Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 310, pp. 1281-1286. Open access 1 1
2022	Roughead, EE, Kerr, M, Moffat, A, Kassie, GM & Pratt, N 2022, 'Medicine-induced acute kidney injury findings from spontaneous reporting systems, sequence symmetry analysis and a case-control study with a focus on medicines used in primary care', Drug Safety, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 1413-1421. Open access 13 11
2021	Kerr, M, Graves, S, Duszynski, K, Inacio, M, de Steiger, R, Harris, I, Ackerman, I, Jorm, L, Lorimer, M & Pratt, N 2021, 'Does a prescription-based comorbidity index correlate with the American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status score and mortality after joint arthroplasty? A registry study', Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, vol. 479, no. 10, pp. 2181-2190. 4 3
2019	Gillam, MH, Kerr, M, Pratt, NL, Lim, R & Roughead, EE 2019, 'Mesh use in urogynaecological procedures between 2005 and 2016: an Australian cohort study', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 105-109. Open access 4 4 3
2019	Kalisch Ellett, LM, Kassie, GM, Pratt, NL, Kerr, M & Roughead, EE 2019, 'Prevalence and duration of use of medicines recommended for short-term use in aged care facility residents', Pharmacy, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1-11. Open access 7 2
2019	Moffat, AK, Pratt, NL, Kerr, M, Kalisch Ellett, LM & Roughead, EE 2019, 'Risk of chronic opioid use in older persons with pre-existing anxiety', Journal of Opioid Management, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 59-66. 3
2019	Pratt, NL, Ramsay, E, Kalisch Ellett, LM, Duszynski, K, Shakib, S, Kerr, M, Caughey, G & Roughead, EE 2019, 'Comparative effectiveness and safety of low-strength and high-strength direct oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin: a sequential cohort study', BMJ Open, vol.9, no. 5, article no. e026486, pp. 1-11. Open access 9 9
2018	Kalisch Ellett, LM, Lim, R, Pratt, NL, Kerr, M, Ramsay, EN, Leblanc, T V, Barratt, JD & Roughead, EE 2018, 'Reducing hypnotic use in insomnia management among Australian veterans: Results from repeated national interventions', BMC Health Services Research, vol.18, no. 1, article no. 626, pp. 1-10. Open access 4 4 9
2018	Kalisch Ellett, LM, Pratt, NL, Kerr, M & Roughead, EE 2018, 'Antipsychotic polypharmacy in older Australians', International Psychogeriatrics, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 539-546. Open access 8 9
2018	Kalisch Ellett, LM, Pratt, NL, Sluggett, JK, Ramsay, EN, Kerr, M, LeBlanc, VT, Barratt, JD, Gilbert, AL & Roughead, EE 2018, 'Sustaining practice change in health care: the impact of a national quality improvement program on the uptake of collaborative medicines reviews', Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 222-230. Open access 7 13
2018	Lim, R, Kerr, M & Roughead, EE 2018, 'Use of medicines and health services for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among a cohort of Australians over 50 years', International Journal Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, vol. 2018, no. 13, pp. 3085-3093. Open access 3 3 3
2018	Pratt, N, Kerr, M, Barratt, J, Kemp-Casey, A, Kalisch Ellett, L, Ramsay, E & Roughead, E 2018, 'The validity of the Rx-Risk Comorbidity Index using medicines mapped to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System', BMJ Open, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1-8. Open access 220 221 21
2017	Kalisch Ellett, LM, Pratt, N, Sluggett, J, Ramsay, E, Kerr, M, LeBlanc, V, Barratt, J & Roughead, E 2017, 'Patient-specific prescriber feedback can increase the rate of osteoporosis screening and treatment: results from two national interventions', Archives of Osteoporosis, vol. 12, no. 1, article no. 17, pp. 1-7. Open access 6 6
2017	Pratt, NL, Kalisch Ellett, LM, Sluggett, JK, Gadzhanova, S V, Ramsay, EN, Kerr, M, Leblanc, VT, Barratt, JD & Roughead, EE 2017, 'Use of proton pump inhibitors among older Australians: national quality improvement programmes have led to sustained practice change', International Journal for Quality in Health Care, vol. 29, no. 1 pp. 75-82. Open access 27 21 18
2015	Pratt, NL, Kalisch Ellett, LM, Sluggett, JK, Ramsay, EN, Kerr, M, LeBlanc, VT, Barratt, JD & Roughead, EE 2015, 'Commitment questions targeting patients promotes uptake of under-used health services: findings from a national quality improvement program in Australia', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 145, pp. 1-6. 6 6 4

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Organisation	Country
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
South Australian Health and Medical Institute	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

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