Social Pharmacy Research Unit, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahasarakham University, Maha Sarakham, 44150, Thailand.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2022 Jan;18(1):2164-2169. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2021.05.012. Epub 2021 May 23.
Medication errors are closely associated with patient safety, as they affect quality of health care. Pharmacists play a key role in preventing such errors to ensure patient safety and enhance pharmacy service quality. Quality improvement has been suggested to be incorporated into daily practice, providing practitioners an opportunity to identify service delivery gaps and configure solutions fitting the context. This paradigm is similar to the concept of action research (AR); therefore, this research approach is deemed appropriate for improving the quality of pharmacy practice. AR is context-specific, dynamic, and systematic and is driven by a spiral process to identify problems, design solutions, and evaluate the impacts of the solution. Since AR uses multiple methods, including a spiral process, confusion may arise among practicing pharmacists and novice researchers interested in using it. This paper aims to describe key information regarding AR, including its brief history and definition, spiral process, and research methods used for data collection, key characteristics, and common limitations to help readers understand the AR protocol.
用药差错与患者安全密切相关，因为它们会影响医疗保健的质量。药剂师在预防此类错误以确保患者安全和提高药学服务质量方面发挥着关键作用。建议将质量改进纳入日常实践中，为从业者提供一个识别服务提供差距和配置适合背景的解决方案的机会。这种模式类似于行动研究（AR）的概念；因此，这种研究方法被认为适合提高药学实践的质量。AR 是特定于上下文的、动态的和系统的，并且由一个螺旋过程驱动，以识别问题、设计解决方案并评估解决方案的影响。由于 AR 使用多种方法，包括螺旋过程，因此可能会使有兴趣使用它的执业药剂师和新手研究人员感到困惑。本文旨在描述有关 AR 的关键信息，包括其简要历史和定义、螺旋过程以及用于数据收集的研究方法、主要特征和常见限制，以帮助读者理解 AR 方案。
