Professor Richard Bourne
MSc, MRes, PhD, FFRPS, FRPharmS
School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Honorary Professor of Critical Care Pharmacy


- Publications
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Journal articles
- ESICM consensus-based recommendations for the management of very old patients in intensive care. Intensive Care Medicine, 51(2), 287-301. View this article in WRRO
- Benzodiazepine and z-drug prescribing in critical care survivors and the risk of rehospitalisation or death due to falls/trauma and due to any cause: a retrospective matched cohort study using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Intensive Care Medicine, 51(1), 125-136.
- Patient Characteristics and Practice Variation Associated With New Community Prescription of Benzodiazepine and z‐Drug Hypnotics After Critical Illness: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using the
UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 33(12). - Improving medication safety for intensive care patients transitioning to a hospital ward: development of a theory-informed intervention package. BMC Health Services Research, 24. View this article in WRRO
- Qualitative Insights Into Patients' and Family Members’ Experiences of In-Hospital Medication Management After a Critical Care Episode. CHEST Critical Care, 2(2), 100072-100072.
- Less inappropriate medication: first steps in medication optimization to improve post-intensive care patient recovery. Intensive Care Medicine, 50(6), 982-985.
- Association between critical care admission and chronic medication discontinuation post-hospital discharge: A retrospective cohort study. Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 25(3), 255-265.
- Psychotropic prescribing after hospital discharge in survivors of critical illness, a retrospective cohort study (2012–2019). Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 25(2), 171-180. View this article in WRRO
- Reducing medication errors in adult intensive care: Current insights for nursing practice. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 81, 103578-103578.
- Economic evaluations of adult critical care pharmacy services: a scoping review. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 31(6), 574-584.
- Understanding medication safety involving patient transfer from intensive care to hospital ward: a qualitative sociotechnical factor study. BMJ Open, 13(5), e066757-e066757.
- Critical care pharmacist research activity, experience and interests: a 2021 United Kingdom survey. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 31(3), 321-327.
- Clinical frailty and polypharmacy in older emergency critical care patients: a single-centre retrospective case series. European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, 30(3), 136-141.
- Medication safety for intensive care patients transferring to a hospital ward: A Hierarchical Task Analysis. Human Factors in Healthcare, 2, 100030-100030.
- A Delphi consensus study to identify priorities for improving and measuring medication safety for intensive care patients on transfer to a hospital ward. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 34(4).
- Medication-related interventions to improve medication safety and patient outcomes on transition from adult intensive care settings : a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Quality & Safety, 31(8).
- Are treatment effects consistent with hypothesized mechanisms of action proposed for postoperative delirium interventions? Reanalysis of systematic reviews. Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 10(17), 1301-1315. View this article in WRRO
- Lopinavir-ritonavir and hydroxychloroquine for critically ill patients with COVID-19: REMAP-CAP randomized controlled trial. Intensive Care Medicine, 47(8), 867-886.
- An international survey on aminoglycoside practices in critically ill patients: the AMINO III study. Annals of Intensive Care, 11(1).
- Reducing medication errors in critical care patients: pharmacist key resources and relationship with medicines optimisation. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 26(6), 534-540.
- Critical care pharmacy workforce: UK deployment and characteristics in 2015.. Int J Pharm Pract.
- Pharmacist prescribing in critical care: an evaluation of the introduction of pharmacist prescribing in a single large UK teaching hospital. European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy.
- How Do Pharmacists Develop into Advanced Level Practitioners? Learning from the Experiences of Critical Care Pharmacists. Pharmacy, 5(3). View this article in WRRO
- Reliability of clinical impact grading by healthcare professionals of common prescribing error and optimisation cases in critical care patients. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 29(1), 250-255.
- PROTECTED-UK - Clinical pharmacist interventions in the UK critical care unit: exploration of relationship between intervention, service characteristics and experience level. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice.
- Pharmacist independent prescribing in secondary care: opportunities and challenges. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 38(1), 1-6.
- Pharmacist independent prescribing in critical care: results of a national questionnaire to establish the 2014 UK position. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 24(2), 104-113.
- Pharmacist’s review and outcomes: Treatment-enhancing contributions tallied, evaluated, and documented (PROTECTED-UK). Journal of Critical Care, 30(4), 808-813.
- Proactive clinical pharmacist interventions in critical care: effect of unit speciality and other factors. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 22(2), 146-154.
- Do earplugs stop noise from driving critical care patients into delirium?. Critical Care, 16(4). View this article in WRRO
- Pharmacist proactive medication recommendations using electronic documentation in a UK general critical care unit. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 34(2), 351-357.
- Clinical pharmacist interventions on a UK neurosurgical critical care unit: a 2-week service evaluation. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 33(5), 755-758.
- Drug treatment of delirium: Past, present and future. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 65(3), 273-282.
- Delirium and use of sedation agents in intensive care. Nursing in Critical Care, 13(4), 195-202.
- Pharmacokinetics of oral melatonin in patients recovering from critical illness. Critical Care, 12(Suppl 2), P511-P511.
- Clinical review: Sleep measurement in critical care patients: research and clinical implications. Critical Care, 11(4), 226-226.
- Guidelines on the Detection, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium. Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 8(1), 76-78.
- Assessment of melatonin, cortisol and rest–activity rhythms in critically ill patients weaning from mechanical ventilation. Critical Care, 11(Suppl 2), P175-P175.
- Melatonin: possible implications for the postoperative and critically ill patient. Intensive Care Medicine, 32(3), 371-379.
- International Programme for Resource Use in Critical Care (IPOC) – a methodology and initial results of cost and provision in four European countries. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 50(1), 72-79.
- Sleep disruption in critically ill patients – pharmacological considerations. Anaesthesia, 59(4), 374-384.
- . Critical Care, 7(6), 420-420.
- Adrenal axis testing and corticosteroid replacement therapy in septic shock patients – local and national perspectives*. Anaesthesia, 58(6), 591-596.
- Critical care pharmacy workforce: a 2020 re-evaluation of the UK deployment and characteristics. Human Resources for Health, 21(1).
- Advanced Level Practice Education: UK Critical Care Pharmacists’ Opinions in 2015. Pharmacy, 4(1), 6-6.
- Evaluation of the effect of guidelines to reduce intravenous potassium infusions in ICU patients. Critical Care, 19(S1).
- Implementation of the Behavioural Pain Scale in sedated mechanically ventilated patients in a UK ICU. Critical Care, 18(S1).
- Melatonin therapy to improve nocturnal sleep in critically ill patients: encouraging results from a small randomised controlled trial. Critical Care, 12(2).
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
- Designing clinical trials for the treatment of delirium. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Vol. 65(3) (pp 299-307)
Datasets
- ESICM consensus-based recommendations for the management of very old patients in intensive care. Intensive Care Medicine, 51(2), 287-301. View this article in WRRO