Fatma Karapinar

Associate professor

Dr Fatma Karapinar studied pharmacy at Utrecht University and did her PhD in the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam on medication errors around hospital discharge and transitional care to prevent them. She works as a hospital pharmacist, epidemiologist and Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Toxicology at Maastricht University Medical Center.

In addition she is actively involved in the Scientific Association of Pharmacists, in the European Association for Hospital Pharmacy (EAHP) as scientific committee member, in the Pharmaceutical Care Research in Daily Practice (PRISMA) as board member and two national programmes set up by the Ministry of Health on 1) transfer of medication related information and 2) avoiding preventable harm (expert elderly patients). Furthermore, she is the chair for postgraduate education for Dutch Pharmacist who are Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacists (US certification programme).

Department of Clinical Pharmacy
P. Debeyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht
T: +31(0)43 387 18 81

2026
- Kingma, J. S., Loh, C., Eland, I. A., van den Broek, M. P. H., Derksen, W. J. M., Knibbe, C. A. J., Karapinar-Carkit, F., van den Bemt, P. M. L. A., & Burgers, D. M. T. (2026). The prevalence of medication-related hospital readmissions after bariatric surgery: a retrospective observational study. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 48(2), 524-533. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-025-02017-8
- Falke, C., Karapinar-Carkit, F., Knol, W., Bouvy, M., Egberts, T., Kempen, T., Vervloet, M., & Heringa, M. (2026). Patients' perspectives and experiences regarding medication reviews: A cross-sectional survey study. Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 21, Article 100692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2025.100692
- Mohammad, A. K., Driessen, J. H. M., Hugtenburg, J. G., Marmorale, A., Siegert, C., van den Bemt, P. M. L. A., Denig, P., & Karapinar-Carkit, F. (2026). Occurrence of Potential Prescribing Cascades After Hospital Discharge: A Cohort Study. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 35(1), Article e70305. https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.70305
- Gundogan-Yilmaz, R., Wahedi, S., Driessen, J. H. M., Mohammad, A., Denig, P., & Karapinar-Carkit, F. (2026). Dose-dependent relationships in potential prescribing cascades: a cohort study using community pharmacy dispensing data. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-025-02083-y
- Maathuis, J., Veldhuis, A., Egbers, J. B., Geerdink, J., Karapinar-Carkit, F., Van Den Bemt, P. M. L. A., Hulshof, E. C., & Kingma, J. S. (2026). Impact of an AI-powered hospital admission prediction dashboard to guide medication reconciliation in the emergency department: a retrospective before-after study. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-025-02076-x
- Falke, C. M., Koolen, M. F. J., Timmer, S. L., Karapinar-carkit, F., Bouvy, M. L., Egberts, A. C. G., & Knol, W. (2026). Perspectives of Older Patients on the Complexity of Medication Use. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.70311
2025
- van der Linden, L., Beavers, C., Forsyth, P., Vandenbriele, C., Tsuyuki, R. T., Karapinar-Carkit, F., & Van Aelst, L. (2025). Effects of pharmacist care on hospitalizations in heart failure across outpatient and inpatient settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 91(11), 3021-3030. Article 70261. https://doi.org/10.1002/bcp.70261
- Juhasova, Z., Karapinar-Carkit, F., & Weir, D. L. (2025). The use of international classification of diseases codes to identify hospital admissions linked with adverse drug events: Validation study. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 91(10), 2910-2918. https://doi.org/10.1002/bcp.70116
- Stuijt, C. C. M., van den Bemt, B. J. F., Karapinar, F., & van Laar, T. (2025). Apotheekinterventies: Benader Het Anders. Pharmaceutisch Weekblad, 160(38), 10-12. https://www.pw.nl/achtergrond/2025/apotheekinterventies-benader-het-anders
- Ten Hoope, S., Welvaars, K., van Geijtenbeek, K., Klok-Everaars, M., van Schaik, S., & Karapinar-Çarkit, F. (2025). Applying text-mining to clinical notes: the identification of patient characteristics from electronic health records (EHRs). BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 25(1), Article 302. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-025-03137-x

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Fatma Karapinar

Associate professor