Practiced-Based Research

Pharmacists are medication experts found in many settings, including hospitals, doctors' offices, outpatient clinics, and community pharmacies. For some faculty members, their research laboratories are these types of pharmacy practice settings; they study how the practice of pharmacy can improve care for patients and groups of patients, and how it can make health care systems better.

Practiced-based research leads to additional roles for pharmacists. It also leads to new services for patients related to medications. Researchers' work in this area leads to improved patient-centered, team-based care delivery across a variety of settings.

Researchers in This Area

Design and develop new pharmacy services and interventions
Assess whether pharmacists’ interventions are effective
Implement innovations and new services across pharmacy settings
Assess health policy to ensure pharmacists can best serve patients
Study how patients can use medications more safely
Investigate pharmacists’ roles on patients’ healthcare teams

Researchers in Action

Jim Hoehns studied how well promising treatments for COVID-19 worked for groups of people.
Brett Faine, an emergency room pharmacist, was part of a group studying how to reduce the risk of front-line workers contracting COVID-19.
Korey Kennelty received a grant to see whether removing high-risk medications from older adults' regimens leads to them falling less.
Michael Ernst was the only pharmacist on an international research study (ongoing in another form) that concluded low-dose aspirin may do more harm than good in healthy older adults.