2.1.1 Pharmacy Journal and Types of Research Papers
Beverley Glass
PHARMACY RESEARCH may be defined by a combination of definitions and is not always synonymous with the term “pharmacy practice research“. It includes:
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basic pharmaceutical sciences which may encompass and is not limited to the subjects pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacology
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clinical research concerning the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of drugs
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pharmacy practice research (which may apply to any area of practice including community, industrial and hospital practice) addressing various issues such as the evaluation of new and existing services, workload measurement, pharmacoeconomics, and quality management.
- The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) lists health services research, which includes the efficiency and effectiveness of health professionals, as one of its four pillars of health research (the others being biomedical; and clinical; social, cultural, environmental, and population health). However, limiting “pharmacy research” to pharmacy practice research limits the impact and relevance of pharmacists’ work to the other CIHR pillars of research deemed to be important to Canadians.