Contemporary Research Methods in Pharmacy and Health Services - Volume 2

Aleda M.H. Chen, PharmD, MS, PhD, FAPhA, is a Professor and Director of Assessment at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy, Cedarville, OH, USA. She is an Associate Editor at Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) and coedits the major text Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Settings. In 2024, she won the Lyman Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) for the best educational research paper in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education (AJPE), and in 2026, she received the AACP Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award. Her teaching and research interests focus on pharmacy assessment, competency-based education (CBE), implementation science, and behavior change, leading to >125 published papers in peer-reviewed journals. Her work in CBE has led to her becoming a member of the International CBE Health Professions Collaborative and guest editing a collection of papers on the implementation of CBE for Perspectives in Medical Education.Shane P. Desselle, RPh, PhD, FAPhA, is Associate Dean for Research & Professional Affairs, Chair, and Professor at Touro University California, USA. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) and Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy (ERCSP). Additionally, he coedits the major text Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Settings, now in its 6th, worldwide edition. He has published over 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 2020, he coauthored a paper winning the Wiederholt Prize for the best paper published in Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, and in 2019, he won the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Sustained Contribution Award for his teaching, scholarship, and service in social/administrative pharmacy. His federally funded research focuses on organizational culture, quality of work life, and advancing the roles of various professionals within the medication use and education systems.Parisa Aslani, BPharm(Hons), MSc, GradCertEdStud (Higher Ed), PhD, MRPharmS, FPS, FFIP, FANZCAP, is a Professor in Medicines Use Optimisation at The University of Sydney, Australia. She is known internationally for her research in the areas of consumer medicines information and adherence to therapy. Her research has impacted policy and education in the healthcare sector, and at the Australian Government level, and has led to a global initiative on developing medicine information strategies for implementation at national and local levels. Her research skills range from qualitative techniques to survey design and randomized control trials.Fernanda Stumpf Tonin, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Spain, and an Integrated Researcher at the Health & Technology Research Center (H&TRC), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal. She is also a Senior Researcher at the National Research Group in Health Technology Assessment (NATS/UFPR) in Brazil. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Pharmacy Practice Research Special Interest Group of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and as Associate Editor of Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy (ERCSP). Her research focuses on health technology assessment, pharmacoeconomics, and health outcomes research, with more than 150 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. She has been ranked among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University. She also works as an HEOR and Market Access consultant in healthcare.Timothy F. Chen, BPharm, DipHPharm, PhD, FFIP, FPS, FANZCAP, ARPharmS is the Professor of Medication Management at The University of Sydney, Australia. Tim is nationally and internationally renowned for his research in medication review and strategies to reduce medication-related harm. He has published extensively in this and other areas of practice. Tim’s research has informed significant practice change, through the implementation of the Australian Commonwealth Government funded Home Medicines Review (HMR) program. Tim currently leads a large and productive postgraduate research team and is the recipient of university and national teaching awards.Victoria Cardenas, BPharm, MPharm, PhD, FFIP, is an Associate Professor at the University of Granada, Spain, where she serves as Vice-Dean for International Relations and Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Her teaching and research focus on the development, evaluation, and implementation of professional pharmacy services, aiming to optimize the quality use of medicines and improve patient outcomes. Her work also addresses the advancement of patient-centered care and the integration of clinical pharmacy services within healthcare systems. She has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has participated in several nationally and internationally funded research projects.

• 1. Use of CFIR to evaluate implementation of services: The case of telepharmacy for outpatients with cancer2. Translation, transcultural adaptation, and validation of instruments for use in alternative languages: The Brazilian Portuguese version of the general medication adherence scale (GMAS) as one example3. Revisiting time-and-motion studies: Comparing nursing medication rounds before and after implementation of automated dispensing cabinets4. A hybrid-effectiveness type I study to evaluate redispensing of unused oral anticancer drugs5. Considerations for conducting a scoping review in pharmacy education6. Using network analysis modularity to group health code systems and decrease dimensionality in machine learning models7. Observational retrospective cohorts studies: Primary care pharmacist-led medication review8. Interpretative phenomenological analysis of the collaboration among healthcare professionals in the nursing home setting9. Development of a new clinical prioritisation tool to enhance clinical pharmacy services10. Theory-informed strategies to address factors anticipated to influence patient participation in community pharmacy-based diabetes prevention services11. Effectiveness and cost analysis of methods used to recruit older adult sedative users to a deprescribing randomized controlled trial12. A mixed methods approach to discern challenges encountered by pharmacy staff in using prescription medication labels during medication counselling13. Improving the quality of publications in and advancing the paradigms of clinical and social pharmacy practice research: The Granada Statements14. Development of an evaluation framework for health information communication technology in contemporary pharmacy practice15. Rationalising Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia (RAPID) complex intervention: A mixed-methods feasibility intervention study16. “Treat us as a person”: A narrative inquiry of experiences and expectations of interactions with pharmacists and pharmacy staff among people who are transgender17. Use of ‘Pharmaceutical services’ Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in articles assessing pharmacists' interventions18. Availability and use of number needed to treat (NNT) based decision aids for pharmaceutical interventions19. Using journey mapping to understand the patient experience with selecting a Medicare part D plan using a pharmacy consultation service20. Leveraging implementation science to increase the translation of deprescribing evidence into practice21. Methodological quality and risk of bias of meta-analyses of pharmacy services: A systematic review22. Evaluating the use of prescription sequence symmetry analysis as a pharmacovigilance tool: A scoping review23. Application and utility of geographic information systems in pharmacy specific health research: A scoping review24. The importance of using standardized terminology in titles and abstracts of pharmacy practice articles25. Methodological - Theoretical approach to phenomenological studies on the experience of medication use: A systematic review26. Multidisciplinary DEprescribing review for Frail oldER adults in long-term care (DEFERAL): Implementation strategy design using behaviour science tools and stakeholder engagement27. Back to the basics: Guidance for formulating good research questions28. Empowering patients as co-researchers in social pharmacy: Lessons learned and practical tips for meaningful partnership and impact29. Back to the basics: Guidance for designing good literature searches30. In pursuit of credibility: Evaluating the divergence between member-checking and hermeneutic phenomenology31. A Goffmanian analysis of impact of unclear professional identity and role negotiation of pharmacists in primary care: A multiple case study32. Development of the Guide to Disseminating Research (GuiDiR): A consolidated framework33. Is it time to stop counting on saturation in pharmacy research? Ideas for a new way forward