"Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy provides a forum for initial exploratory work in the field of clinical and social pharmacy needed to describe phenomena and relationships among people involved in the medication use process to lay the groundwork for the design of interventions as well as future hypothesis-testing, theory-driven research in the field, applicable anywhere but with special attention devoted to low- and middle-income countries. The scope includes patient attitudes, patient behaviors, prescribing patterns, pharmacy staff/workforce initiatives, medication safety reports, pharmacoepidemiological considerations, and implementation science, which evaluates how initial development considerations of a process or new medication-related service is one that can be sustained over time, sometimes explored through the use of qualitative research methods."--Publisher |