page_title: Pharmacy research
section_title: Goals
hierarchical_section_title: Pharmacy research / Goals
context_page_description: Pharmacy practice research, also known as pharmacy research, is a specialty field within the wider area of health services research, which focuses on examining how and why people access pharmacy services, how much care costs, and what happens to patients as a result of this care. Its aim is to support evidence-based policy and practice decisions where pharmacists are employed or medicines are prescribed or used.
context_section_description: The goals of pharmacy practice research are to support the clinical and effective use of medicines, while ensuring that the risks of adverse drug reactions are minimised. It is generally concerned with the delivery of and equitable access to pharmaceutical care and other services delivered by pharmacists and related health care providers. It is undertaken by researchers, often based in universities, from a wide range of health care disciplines. These may include multidisciplinary groups of pharmacists together with statisticians, physicians, nurses, health psychologists, social scientists, health economists and epidemiologists, among others.
  Areas of pharmacy research may include, for example:
  Medicines policy and governance
  Quality assurance and safety
  Medicine access and rational use
  Quality, safety & standards (e.g. vaccines and biologicals).
caption: Illustration of a doctor and pharmacist from Medicinarius (1505) by Hieronymus Brunschwig.
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