Emerging methods, as well as best practices in well-used methods, in pharmacy are of great benefit to researchers, graduate students, graduate programs, residents and fellows also in other health science areas.
Researchers require a text to assist in the design of experiments to address seemingly age-old problems. New interventions are needed to improve medication adherence, patients’ lived experiences in health care, provider-patient relationships, and even various facets of pharmacogenomics. Advances in systems re-engineering can optimize health care practitioners’ roles.
Contemporary Research Methods in Pharmacy and Health Services includes multi-authored chapters by renowned experts in their field. Chapters cover examples in pharmacy, health services and others transcendent of medical care, following a standardized format, including key research points; valid and invalid assumptions; pitfalls to avoid; applications; and further inquiry.
This is a valuable resource for researchers both in academia and corporate R&D, primarily in pharmacy but also in health services, and other health disciplines. Social science researchers and government scientists can also benefit from the reading.
Key Features
- Provides multi-authored chapters by renowned experts in their field
- Includes examples for pharmacy and health services and others that are transcendent of medical care
- Covers key research points, valid and invalid assumptions, pitfalls to avoid, applications, and further inquiry
1. Applying human factors and ergonomics methods to pharmaceutical health services research
2. Designing complex health interventions using experience-based co-design
3. Use of common models to inform and design pharmacy and health services research
4. Implementation science to guide pharmacy and health services research
5. CFIR framework in pharmacy and health services research
6. Principles and Applications of Meta-Research
7. Best practices when conducting and a meta-analysis
8. Using Methods from Human-Centered Design in Health Research: An Introduction for Pharmacy and Health Services Researchers
9. Applying action research in social pharmacy and health services research – An overview
10. Q Methodology in pharmacy and health services research
11. Medicines optimisation and illness management research using dyads
12. Using network analysis in pharmacy and health services research
13. Designing, evaluating and applying pictograms in pharmacy practice research
14. Application of photo-voice in pharmacy and health services research
15. The draw and write technique to uncover nuance in pharmacy and health services delivery
16. The use of art to analyse learning practices in pharmacy and to inform assessment and intervention practices
17. Evaluating benefits and harms of deprescribing using routinely collected data
18. Understanding and addressing the observer effect in observation studies
19. An introduction to how realist research can inform pharmacy practice and policy.
20. Application of process philosophy with organization and management science in pharmacy and health services research
21. Design and application of the simulated patient method in pharmacy and health services research
22. Moderation analysis with binary outcomes: Interactions on additive and multiplicative scales
23. The use of ethnography in social pharmacy and health services research
24. Video-reflexive ethnography applications in pharmacy and health services research
25. Reflexivity practice during ethnographic informed fieldwork
26. Utilizing a Cognitive Engineering Approach to Conduct a Hierarchical Task Analysis to Understand Complex Patient Decision Making
27. Rapid turn-around qualitative analysis applications in pharmacy and health services research
28. Best practices in mixed methods for pharmacy and health services research
29. Using textual data in qualitative pharmacy and health services research
30. Online Focus Group Methodology: Recruitment, Facilitation, and Reimbursement
31. Consensus development methods: use in the production of national and international frameworks and tools in health systems and policy making
32. An overview of the Delphi Technique in social pharmacy and health services research
33. Applying the Delphi Technique in pharmacy and health services research
34. Using prescription drug databases for comorbidity adjustment: A remedy for disaster or a prescription for improved model fit?
35. Handling missing data in surveys - Concepts, approaches, and applications in pharmacy and health services research
36. Use of national databases and surveys to evaluate prescribing patterns and medication use
37. Factor analysis principal components analysis in pharmacy and health services research
38. Guidelines and standards in medication adherence research
39. Methodological and disciplinary competence and insecurity in qualitative research
40. Contemporary conceptualizations of measurement validity
41. A practical approach to the assessment and quantification of content validity
42. Structural equation modeling and latent class analysis in pharmacy and health services research
43. Statistical consideration in making potential multiple comparisons
