E-DRUG: New community pharmacy research website
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Dear colleagues,
Below is a link to an interesting new website which provides you
with access to a database of Australian and international literature
resources that relate to community pharmacy practice research and the
economics of professional pharmacist services. The information is
primarily intended for community pharmacists, pharmacy academics and
other pharmacy researchers. The database includes studies that evaluate
patient health outcomes and quality of medication use or quality of
prescribing.
( http://www.communitypharmacyresearch.org)
The Community Pharmacy Research Support Centre
<http://www.guild.org.au/public/researchdocs/research_support_summary.pd
commissioned the development of this website with the aim to develop
and support community pharmacy practice research expertise and capacity.
The CPRSC was established in September 2003. It is a national consortium
of nine academic pharmacy units in Australia that aims to develop and
support community pharmacy practice research expertise and capacity.
The site enables users to search for literature that evaluates
pharmacist services in the community pharmacy setting and also in other
settings that may be relevant to community pharmacy. Literature included
in the database has been published or undertaken since 1990. Rigorously
conducted studies (randomised controlled trials, controlled trials and
systematic reviews) have been included in the database for each of the
pharmacist services. Where this high-level evidence is not currently
available, less rigorous evidence (such as pre-post studies without
control groups) have been used. Only studies that have evaluated patient
health outcomes, quality of medication use or quality of prescribing are
included in the database registers.
The registers will be updated on a monthly basis, with summaries of
newly entered literature, research reports, abstracts and ongoing or
completed projects being provided as a monthly email alert to interested
parties.The user can subscribe
<http://www.communitypharmacyresearch.org/CommunityPharmacyDBSubscribe/>
to be emailed regularly and alerted to new literature that has been
published and evaluated or can submit results of their own research to
be evaluated and included in the database.
John Barratt
Sansom Institute
University of South Australia
Frome Road, ADELAIDE
Phone : +61 (08) 83022431
john.barratt@unisa.edu.au