薬系大学と病院薬剤部・保険薬局の連携による医療薬学研究推進について

現状およびニーズに関する調査研究

抄録

Clinical research as well as basic research is one of the important aspects for the development of clinical pharmacy. In clinical pharmacy research, like research in medicine, it is desirable to find and investigate problems on clinical pharmacotherapy and to utilize the findings of such results in the therapy. In order to promote such clinical pharmacy research, collaboration between hospital or community pharmacies and pharmaceutical universities is very important, because the former usually does not have enough space, equipment, or pharmacists to do the research, and the latter usually does not have chance to find the problems in clinical pharmaco-therapy. In the present study, we carried out a questionnaire survey concerning clinical pharmacy research, in order to clarify the present situations and needs in hospital or community pharmacy in Hiroshima prefecture. The results indicated that many pharmacists in hospital as well as community pharmacy feel that it is necessary to do clinical pharmacy research to understand and clarify the problems they found in clinical pharmacotherapy. In addition, though many of them are either not doing or can not do clinical pharmacy research under the present situation, they are interested in collaborating with pharmaceutical universities. These results offer important information in promoting clinical pharmacy research based on the collaboration between hospital or community pharmacies and pharmaceutical universities.