Miss Mhairi Kerr

Research Fellow

School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science

College of Health


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.

Year Citation
2025 Widagdo, I., Kerr, M., Ellett, L. K., Schlegel, C., Sadeqzadeh, E., Wang, A., . . . 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, 20, 309-323.
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2024 Andrade, A. Q., Kerr, M., & Roughead, E. E. (2024). Data-driven interventions for an emergency preparedness system: a national experience in Australia. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 310, 1281-1286.
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2022 Roughead, E. E., Kerr, M., Moffat, A., Kassie, G. M., & 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, 45(11), 1413-1421.
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2021 Kerr, M., Graves, S., Duszynski, K., Inacio, M., de Steiger, R., Harris, I., . . . 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, 479(10), 2181-2190.
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2020 Moffat, A. K., Pratt, N. L., Kerr, M., Ellett, L. M. K., & Roughead, E. E. (2020). Risk of chronic opioid use in older persons with pre-existing anxiety. Journal of Opioid Management, 16(1), 59-66.
DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC3
2019 Gillam, M. H., Kerr, M., Pratt, N. L., Lim, R., & Roughead, E. E. (2019). Mesh use in urogynaecological procedures between 2005 and 2016: an Australian cohort study. Australian and New Zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, 59(1), 105-109.
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2019 Pratt, N. L., Ramsay, E., Kalisch Ellett, L. M., Duszynski, K., Shakib, S., Kerr, M., . . . Roughead, E. E. (2019). Comparative effectiveness and safety of low-strength and high-strength direct oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin: a sequential cohort study. BMJ Open, 9(5), e026486.
DOI Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC7
2019 Ellett, L. M. K., Kassie, G. M., Pratt, N. L., Kerr, M., & Roughead, E. E. (2019). Prevalence and Duration of Use of Medicines Recommended for Short-Term Use in Aged Care Facility Residents. PHARMACY, 7(2), 11 pages.
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2018 Kalisch Ellett, L. M., Lim, R., Pratt, N. L., Kerr, M., Ramsay, E. N., Leblanc, T. V., . . . Roughead, E. E. (2018). Reducing hypnotic use in insomnia management among Australian veterans: Results from repeated national interventions. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 626.
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2018 Kalisch Ellett, L. M., Pratt, N. L., Sluggett, J. K., Ramsay, E. N., Kerr, M., LeBlanc, V. T., . . . Roughead, E. E. (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, 48(3), 222-230.
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2018 Kalisch Ellett, L. M., Pratt, N. L., Kerr, M., & Roughead, E. E. (2018). Antipsychotic polypharmacy in older Australians. International Psychogeriatrics, 30(4), 539-546.
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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, 8(4), 1-8.
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2018 Lim, R., Kerr, M., & Roughead, E. E. (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, 2018(13), 3085-3093.
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2017 Kalisch Ellett, L. M., Pratt, N. L., Sluggett, J. K., Ramsay, E. N., Kerr, M., LeBlanc, V. T., . . . Roughead, E. E. (2017). Patient-specific prescriber feedback can increase the rate of osteoporosis screening and treatment: results from two national interventions. Archives of osteoporosis, 12(1, article no. 17), 1-7.
DOI Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC5
2017 Pratt, N. L., Kalisch Ellett, L. M., Sluggett, J. K., Gadzhanova, S. V., Ramsay, E. N., Kerr, M., . . . Roughead, E. E. (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, 29(1), 75-82.
DOI Scopus27 WoS21 Europe PMC22
2015 Pratt, N. L., Kalisch Ellett, L. M., Sluggett, J. K., Ramsay, E. N., Kerr, M., LeBlanc, V. T., . . . Roughead, E. E. (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, 145, 1-6.
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