Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies

Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies provides examples and details regarding how pharmacy practice research has transformed over the past decade and how this is impacting overall health. This book presents several methodologies and techniques used in current pharmacy practice. According to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, countries around the world are aiming to achieve Universal Health Coverage. In this context, pharmacists are a vital part of the healthcare teams and the book portrays the research methods used in conducting pharmacy practice and medicines use research. The professional role of pharmacists has evolved tremendously over the past few decades across the globe and the pace of change has been interestingly phenomenal in varying aspects. The book provides a great resource for pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, policymakers, and researchers to understand the dimensions of practice, education, research, and policy concerning pharmacy, and it provides the synthesis of the development so far, pointing to the needs and demands of the future.

1. Experiences with Clinical Pharmacy Services in Cardiac Rehabilitation Program in Qatar
2. Clinical Pharmacy Service Innovation in Obstetrics and Gynecology Setting
3. Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies on Home Care Services
4. PharmaSAFE: A Quality Assurance Process to Improve Community Pharmacy Services in Saudi Arabia
5. Pharmacy services and pharmacy practice research in Ukraine
6. Understanding pharmacy staff attitudes and experience relating to suicide
7. Making Time, Making History, Transforming Lives. Community Pharmacy service development and evaluation for people living with Learning Disabilities in the UK
8. Pharmacist-led interventions for the early detection of cardiovascular ill-health and its risk factors: experience from Portugal
9. Pharmacy practice and Continuing Professional Development in low and middle income countries (LMICs)
10. Personalising Patient Care with Medicines: Innovative Models of Care from the UK
11. Pharmacy Services for Safe Parenteral Nutrition
12. Community pharmacists and pharmacovigilance: Global overview and a case study

This book will be a valuable resource for practicing pharmacists, academicians, researcher, health policy makers, governments, and other international agencies (WHO, World Bank etc) This book can be use in school with pharmacy programs, since it provides details in pharmacy practice in the setting of Asian countries and perspective.

Professor Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar is Professor in Medicines and Healthcare and the Director of Centre of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research at the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom. He is globally known for his work in pharmaceutical policy and practice, including quality use of medicines, clinical pharmacy practice, access to medicines and issues related to pharmacoeconomics.

He has published in high impact journals such as PLoS Medicine and the Lancet and has acted as a consultant for World Health Organization, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Health Action International, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, World Bank, European Union, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and for the Pharmaceutical Management Agency of New Zealand.

His edited work includes "Economic evaluation of pharmacy services", “Pharmaceutical prices in the 21st century”, “Pharmaceutical policies in countries with developing healthcare systems ", “Global Pharmaceutical Policy”, “Pharmacy Practice Research Methods” and “Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy”. Published by Elsevier and Adis/Springer, the work is used in curriculum design, policy development and for referral all around the globe.

Professor Babar is also the Editor-in-Chief of BMC Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice and can be contacted at z.babar@hud.ac.uk