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Peter Garnet Davey

Professor in Pharmacoeconomics
Lead Clinician for Clinical Quality Improvement
Quality, Safety and Informatics Research Group http://www.dundee.ac.uk/medschool/qsi
University of Dundee and NHS Tayside

Research Interests

My research focuses on the prudent use of antibiotics, which includes prescribing quality improvement, the epidemiology of antibiotic use and evaluation of treatment guidelines. I have over twenty years experience on applying the methods of economic evaluation to understanding the costs and benefits of preventing healthcare associated infection. More recently I have expanded my research interests to encompass patient safety more generally, including medical education research in my new role as Lead Clinician for Clinical Quality Improvement in the Medical School. International recognition of expertise includes election to the Presidency of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (2002-3) and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2006-9) and invited chapters in standard text books, most recently on Antibiotic Policies for the 9th Edition of Antibiotic and Chemotherapy, to be published in 2010.

Recent health-related publications

Vernaz, N, Hill, K, Leggeat, S, Nathwani, D, Philips, G, Bonnabry, P, Davey, P (2009) Temporal effects of antibiotic use and Clostridium difficile infections. J Antimicrob Chemother 63(6): 1272-1275.

Marwick, C, Davey, P (2009) Care bundles: the holy grail of infectious risk management in hospital? Curr Opin Infect Dis 22(4): 364-369.

Davey, P, Ferech, M, Ansari, F, Muller, A, Goossens, H, on behalf of the ESAC Project Group (2008) Outpatient antibiotic use in the four administrations of the UK: cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 62(6): 1441 - 1447.

Current grants

Davey, P.G. (2004-2010) Leader of the Hospital Subproject of the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption. DG SANCO of the European Union.

Davey, P.G. (2006-2009) Leader of Work Package 4&5 (Case studies and socio-economic consequences of the burden of Antimicrobial Resistance) for BURDEN (the BURDEN OF DISEASE AND RESISTANCE IN EUROPEAN NATIONS), DG SANCO of the European Union.

Davey, P.G. (2007-2011) Leader of Patient Safety in Primary Care for the Scottish Patient Safety Research Network, SHEFC Strategic Research Development Grant

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