Conducting your Pharmacy Practice Research Project

"This textbook...is a useful and concise resource for "first time researchers" in any practice setting...One of the strengths of this text is that it specifically devotes a section to "Writing up and Dissemination of the Findings", as an integral component of the research process...For those working in hospital pharmacy this section is especially useful as it emphasises the need to communicate research findings in order to effect change in the local setting, and how this might be done...Overall, this text is best read in its entirety (a fairly easy read!) as an introduction to research, and would be useful to anyone commencing a research project, not just research students and their supervisors. The text should be part of any hospital pharmacy's library of resources, and a prerequisite text for those taking on roles involving research activities at any level"Dr Beata V. Bajorek, Academic Pharmacist, University of Sydney, Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research 41(1) 2011.

• Part 1 Preparation, planning and management 1. Introduction 2. Types of pharmacy practice projects 3. Setting up the project, protocol development and ethics 4. Time management and working with others 5. Patient and public involvement 6. For supervisorsPart 2 Scientific enquiry and research/service evaluation methodology 7. A scientific approach to your research 8. Reviewing the literature 9. Study design 10. Sources of information, datasets, sampling and recruitment 11. Data collection: survey research and questionnaires 12. Data collection: interviews and focus groups 13. Data collection: prospective methods 14. Existing datasets and secondary analyses 15. Data processing and analysisPart 3 Writing up and dissemination of finding 16. Writing the project report/research paper 17. Dissemination of the findings