Publications.

Pharmacoepidemiology and clinical-practice research, mostly through the Medicines Intelligence Group and the Health Research Council fellowship in opioid-related harm.

Publications
17
First-author
12
Themes
5
  1. School of Pharmacy Best Publication Prize 2025

    Outcomes related to new persistent opioid use after surgery or trauma

    Annals of Surgery 281(3):354–360 · 2025

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  2. Persistent opioid use after hospital admission due to trauma

    Pain 166(1):e1–e9 · 2024

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Opioid pharmacoepidemiology

  1. Gong J, et al. (2026). Persistent opioid use in opioid-naïve patients: addressing safety concerns. Medicines Safety and Pharmacovigilance (ed. R. Hussain), Elsevier. In press

  2. Gong J, et al. (2025). In response: persistent opioid use after hospital admission from surgery in New Zealand. Anesthesia & Analgesia. Reply

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  3. Gong J, et al. (2025). Outcomes related to new persistent opioid use after surgery or trauma. Annals of Surgery 281(3):354–360.

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  4. Gong J, et al. (2025). Reply to Jhang et al. on persistent opioid use after trauma. Pain. Reply

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  5. Gong J, et al. (2024). Persistent opioid use after hospital admission from surgery in New Zealand. Anesthesia & Analgesia 139(4):701–710.

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  6. Colleagues, Gong J (2024). Rate and predictors of postoperative opioid use and high opioid exposure after surgery in New Zealand. ANZ Journal of Surgery 94(10):1846–1852.

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  7. Gong J, et al. (2024). Incidence and risk factors of new persistent opioid use after surgery and trauma: a systematic review. BMC Surgery 24(1):210.

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  8. Gong J, et al. (2024). Persistent opioid use after hospital admission due to trauma. Pain 166(1):e1–e9.

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  9. Gong J, et al. (2022). Identifying surgical and trauma patients in New Zealand for opioid-related pharmacoepidemiological research. Pharmacoepidemiology 2(1):1–12.

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  10. Colleagues, Gong J (2022). Postdischarge opioid use and persistent use after general surgery (retrospective cohort). Surgery 172(2):602–611.

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  11. Gong J, et al. (2021). Persistent opioid use and opioid-related harm after hospital admissions for surgery and trauma in New Zealand (protocol). BMJ Open 11(1):e044493.

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Pharmacist practice and scope

  1. Gong J, et al. (2026). New Zealand pharmacist prescribers: a descriptive study of roles and practice. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice.

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Acute pain and analgesia

  1. Colleagues, Gong J (2020). Systematic review and meta-analysis of oral paracetamol versus combination oral analgesics for acute musculoskeletal injuries. Emergency Medicine Australasia 33(1):107–113.

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  2. Gong J, et al. (2019). PAinED randomised controlled trial: oral paracetamol versus combination oral analgesics for acute musculoskeletal injuries in the emergency department. Annals of Emergency Medicine 74(4):521–529.

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Respiratory and metabolic

  1. Colleagues, Gong J (2026). Metformin for asthma exacerbations (Cochrane protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

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Wider clinical evidence

  1. Colleagues, Gong J (2022). Bleeding risk of oral anticoagulants in liver cirrhosis. New Zealand Medical Journal 135(1563):52–61.

  2. Colleagues, Gong J (2020). Graft-versus-host disease after liver transplantation: a diagnostic and management challenge. ACG Case Reports Journal 7(12):e00499.

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  3. Gong J (2019). Clinical pharmacy considerations in special populations: drug dose adjustment in hepatic impairment. Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy 1st Edition.