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Paul Chin

Senior Lecturer

MB ChB PhD

Email paul.chin@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 244 1077

Paul Chin is a clinical pharmacologist, employed as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, Christchurch and Senior Medical Officer at Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand – Waitaha Canterbury.

Research interests include therapeutic drug monitoring (including anticoagulants and antimicrobials), quality use of medicines, electronic prescribing, and clinical decision support.

Publications

Pairman, L., Beh, Y. T., Maher, H., Gardiner, S. J., Chin, P., Williman, J., & Chambers, S. T. (2025). A retrospective observational cohort study of oral azithromycin treatment for Legionnaires' disease. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkaf081 Journal - Research Article

Sundermann, M., Every-Palmer, S., Barclay, M., & Chin, P. K. L. (2025). A clinical decision support alert to promote timely laxative use in in-patients prescribed clozapine. BJPsych Open, 11, e51. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2025.1 Journal - Research Article

Pairman, L., Chin, P., & Doogue, M. (2024). Evaluating the effect of making the indication field compulsory in electronic prescriptions: A pre-post study in a hospital prescribing system. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/bcp.16370 Journal - Research Article

Sundermann, M., Every-Palmer, S., & Chin, P. K. L. (2024). A decision support alert for promoting prophylactic laxative use with clozapine. In J. Mantas, A. Hasman, G. Demiris, K. Saranto, M. Marschollek, T. Arvanitis, … E. Andrikopoulou (Eds.), Digital health and informatics innovations for sustainable health care systems: Proceedings of the Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE). (pp. 1748-1749). Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/SHTI240766 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Chin, P., Pairman, L., & Quayle, J. (2024). Electronic prescribing by medical students: Descriptive data and inferred clinical impact. In J. Mantas, A. Hasman, G. Demiris, K. Saranto, M. Marschollek, T. Arvanitis, … E. Andrikopoulou (Eds.), Digital health and informatics innovations for sustainable health care systems: Proceedings of the Medical Informatics Europe Conference (MIE). (pp. 1517-1518). Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/shti240703 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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