A survey of hospital pharmacy research in Canada.
During the past two years, the CSHP Research Committee was given the tasks of evaluating the present status of hospital pharmacy research and developing positive recommendations for future action. In order to determine the specific needs and interests of Canadian hospital pharmacists, a survey of the CSHP membership was conducted in April of 1987. Two hundred and twenty-two members (13.1%) responded to the survey. Fifty-six percent (124) of the respondents had completed one or more research projects and 30 percent (66) served as supervisors of at least one research study. Clinical drug studies, particularly DUR and pharmacokinetic projects, were the focus of most of the present research efforts. In addition to DUR and pharmacokinetics, the most popular "wish to do" research topics included pharmaceutics, cost benefit/analysis and other pharmacy practice research topics. The survey respondents indicated a strong desire for CSHP to sponsor research similar to the Workload Measurement Study. The Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists was also requested to provide educational programs and other methods of information dissemination for training in the field of research methodology.
D002170:Canada; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires