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Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar Editor Pharmacy Practice Research Methods Pharmacy Practice Research Methods ThiSisaFMBlankPage Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar Editor Pharmacy Practice Research Methods Adis Editor Zaheer-Ud-DinBabar FacultyofMedicalandHealthSciences UniversityofAuckland Auckland NewZealand ISBN978-3-319-14671-3 ISBN978-3-319-14672-0 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-14672-0 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015936045 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper AdisisabrandofSpringer Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) To Aneequa and Danyal ThiSisaFMBlankPage Foreword Thepublicationofthiscollectionofmethodologiesandmethodssurelysignalsthat PharmacyPracticeResearchhascomeofageinprovidinganevidencebaseforthe clinical effectiveness of pharmacy as an academic discipline and profession that placesthepersonatthecentreofcareinmedicineuse. Findings from gold standard research design and conduct must underpin phar- macypracticeinthetwenty-firstcentury.Thechallengesofthiscentury,including the discovery, delivery and use of medicines and therapeutic devices, revolve aroundthelargercomplexissuesofclimatechange,bordersecurity,demographic changes,economicshifts,communicationstechnologyandresourcessustainability allofwhichwillimpacttheresearchinwhichpharmacistsandtheirinterdisciplin- ary colleagues engage. The role of the pharmacist will expand beyond medicines delivery,healtheducation,publichealth,healthpromotionandpolicydevelopment intoareasthataddresshealthinequalitiesandtheirsocialdeterminantsatthelocal levelandonaglobalscale. The various chapters in this edited volume provide a comprehensive but not exhaustive research toolkit for guiding the future practise of pharmacy in the technologicalageofthehealthliteratepatientrequiringpersonalisedpharmacother- apeuticsforthechronicdiseasesofaffluenceandforunderstandinghowtoachieve equitableaccesstocost-effectivemedicinesandculturallyappropriatepharmaceu- ticalcareindevelopedanddevelopingcountries.Readerswillfindthedescriptions helpfulinbuildingtheirownmethodologiestoaddresstheirdiversequestionsabout the use of medicines, delivery of pharmaceutical services, pharmacists’ employ- mentandevidence-basedpolicytoinformimprovementinthequalityandsafetyof pharmacypractice. vii viii Foreword This book willbeofinterest topharmacystudents, academics,researchers and practising pharmacists. It provides general chapters on the broad paradigms of quantitative,qualitativeandmixedmethodsresearchalongsidechaptersonspecific researchmethods,includingtheapplicationofmethodsfromotherdisciplines,such asthesocialandbehaviouralsciences,economicsandepidemiology,tothepractice ofpharmacy. Melbourne,VIC,Australia KathRyan November2014 Contents 1 PharmacyPracticeResearch:EvidenceandImpact. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ChristineBond 2 ResearchMethodologiesRelatedtoPharmacyPractice: AnOverview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 ParastouDonyai 3 QuantitativeMethodsinPharmacyPracticeResearch. . . . . . . . . . 31 JamesA.GreenandPaulineNorris 4 QualitativeMethodsinPharmacyPracticeResearch. . . . . . . . . . . 49 SusanneKaaeandJanineMarieTraulsen 5 ActionResearchinPharmacyPractice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 LotteStigNørgaardandEllenWesthSørensen 6 ParticipatoryActionResearchinPharmacyPractice. . . . . . . . . . . 91 HazelBradley 7 MixedMethodsResearchinPharmacyPractice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Crist´ınRyan,CathalCadogan,andCarmelHughes 8 ApplyingOrganisationalTheoryinPharmacyPractice Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 ShaneScahill 9 ApplyingPharmacoeconomicsinCommunityandHospital PharmacyResearch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 SyedTabishRaziZaidiandZaheer-Ud-DinBabar 10 ConceptMappingandPatternMatchinginPharmacyPractice Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 ShaneL.Scahill ix
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