Description
Conducting Your Pharmacy Practice Research Project is a clear and concise handbook that includes new chapters on types of projects and patient and public involvement. Divided into three comprehensive sections, contents include:
- Preparation, planning and management
- Scientific enquiry and research methodology
- Writing up and dissemination of the findings
This systematic guide will be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students and their supervisors. It will also appeal to researchers unfamiliar with health services research methods and to practising pharmacists new to conducting a research project.
Part 1 Preparation, planning and management
• Introduction
• Types of pharmacy practice projects
• Setting up the project, protocol development and ethics
• Time management and working with others
• Patient and public involvement
• For supervisors
Part 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 analysis
Part 3: Writing up and dissemination of finding
Writing the project report/research paper
Dissemination of the findings
Answers/ Index
