UMORE - Pharmacy
Research and Consultancy Services
What we do:
- conduct in-depth scientific research into pharmacy practice and the quality use of medicines
- conduct small and large scale trials
- respond to research-based tenders
- write comprehensive project reports and peer-reviewed journal publications
How we do it:
- extensive statistical and data analysis
- data mining and data extraction
- project management
- IT development
- peer review
- economic analysis
- systematic literature reviews
Examples of previous work include:
Health informatics
- Pharmacy recording of medication incidents and services (PROMISe) III
- Building on success: the sustainability and national feasibility of a community pharmacy intervention to improve the management of asthma
Anticoagulants
- Pharmacy-based model enabling patient self-monitoring of warfarin: development and evaluation
- The role of community pharmacy in the post-discharge management of patients initiated on warfarin
Medication reviews
- The Economic Value of Home Medicines Review (VALMER)
- Filling the gap in professional services: medication use reviews (MURs) in rural community pharmacies
Chronic disease management
- Understanding respiratory medication persistence in Australian patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Diabetes pilot program – Diabetes Medication Assistance Program (DMAS), Stage 1