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Hospital Pharmacists Fail to Record Their Research in the Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project
Author(s) -
Dooley Michael J,
Lu Phuong L
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy practice and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2055-2335
pISSN - 1445-937X
DOI - 10.1002/jppr2002322141
Subject(s) - medicine , pharmacy , project commissioning , publishing , quality (philosophy) , clinical pharmacy , family medicine , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law
Aim: To quantify the number of projects with a quality use of medicines (QUM) focus that were presented at the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia 1999 Federal and 2000 Biennial Clinical conferences that have been entered in the Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project (QUMmap). Methods: Published abstracts of contributed papers and posters were examined. Abstracts that had a major focus on improving or supporting QUM in Australia were considered suitable to have been entered in the database. The QUMmap was searched to determine if the projects had been contributed to the database. Results: 258 presentations were reviewed from both meetings; 226 (88%) were classified as suitable for inclusion and, of these, 9 (4.0%) were identified in the database. Conclusion: Only 4% of projects with a QUM focus presented at two major hospital pharmacy conferences had been entered in the QUMmap. Strategies need to be implemented to improve the rate of contributions. Individuals utilising the QUMmap could conclude that hospital pharmacists have a limited role in these activities and this could result in the omission of pharmacy as an important player in research and QUM activities.