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Pharmacy Practice

Research in Pharmacy Practice covers a wide range of projects with the overall aims of optimising delivery of pharmaceutical services to the client and consolidating a key role for pharmacists in the health care team. Broad areas of research include pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology and social pharmacy.

  • Investigation of factors involved in the allergic asthmatic state and the role of inflammation
  • Optimisation of the pharmacist’s role in asthma management
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  • Disease state management in diabetes and asthma
  • Development of interventions to increase the professional contact between pharmacists and medical practitioners using medication regimen review
  • Health promotion and screening in community pharmacy
  • Innovative modes of practice: development, implementation and evaluation
  • Use of technology in the delivery of pharmaceutical services
  • Facilitation of behaviour change in community practice
  • Domiciliary medication review
  • Development of clinical services from community pharmacy
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  • Consumer perceptions of, experiences of and satisfaction with professional services and how these impact on the use of pharmacy services
  • The impact of consumer medicines information on medication taking behaviour
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  • Establishment and evaluation of models of clinical pharmacy training
  • Clinical pharmacokinetics and therapeutic drug monitoring services
  • The optimal long-term treatment of patients admitted with heart failure
  • Drug use policy – the role of Drug Committees in clinical, legal and ethical dilemmas
  • Development of methodology for evaluation of outcomes of clinical pharmacy services – towards evidence based practice
  • Quality use of medicine programs in clinical pharmacy practice
  • Clinical pharmacy services in the continuum of care across hospital and community patient transfers
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