Proposal for an approach to support a clinical research by pharmacists

Abstract

Recently, there has been a need for high-quality research by pharmacists, but there are many problems with this activity. Since 2015, we have introduced an originally developed report on the progress of clinical research and have established a laboratory conference at Department of Pharmacy, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital. Pharmacists revise the significance and direction of the theme by writing an article on the report, along with corrections, and the collaborators discuss the data at the conference. We then evaluated the need for the report and the conference by providing a questionnaire to pharmacists. They indicated each item of the report was almost necessary. The correspondents also indicated that they understood the necessity of both the report and the conference, as it allowed them to clarify their thoughts. After the introduction of the report and laboratory conference, a number of the academic conference presentations remained the same, but there was an increase in presentations on papers on the same theme. We expect that the introduction of the report on the progress of research and laboratory conference might lead to progress in the quality of research by pharmacists.