Practice-based Research Goals

Conduct Practice-Based Research in Pharmaceutical Care

• Use effective project management skills
• Define a research question
• Complete a literature search on the subject
• Outline appropriate methodologies to evaluate the research question
• Conduct a research project
• Obtain Institutional Review Board approval, if necessary
• Collect relevant data
• Analyze data and summarize findings
• Communicate research findings by engaging in the peer-review publication process
• Identify an appropriate journal for publication of the completed work
• Prepare a manuscript following the journal's "Guidelines for Authors"
• Incorporate into the manuscript relevant literature that supports the research
• Clearly present research methodologies, results and analysis in writing
• Submit the manuscript to journal
• Communicate with editorial staff
• Incorporate peer-comments into manuscript
• Communicate research findings via oral presentation