Improving the quality of publications in and advancing the paradigms of clinical and social Pharmacy Practice Research: The Granada statements

Fernando Fernandez-Llimos; Shane Desselle; Derek Stewart; Victoria Garcia-Cardenas; Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar; Christine Bond; Ana Dago; Ramune Jacobsen; Lotte Stig Nørgaard; Carlo Polidori; Manuel Sanchez-Polo; Bernardo Santos-Ramos; Natalia Shcherbakova; Fernanda S Tonin

doi:10.1016/j.farma.2023.04.001

Improving the quality of publications in and advancing the paradigms of clinical and social Pharmacy Practice Research: The Granada statements

Farm Hosp. 2023 May-Jun;47(3):T133-T138. doi: 10.1016/j.farma.2023.04.001. Epub 2023 May 15.

[Article in English, Spanish]

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Revista Brasileira de Farmacia Hospitalar e Serviços de Saúde; Profesor, Laboratorio de Farmacología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy; Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy; Vicedecano para Investigación y Asuntos profesionales, Touro University California, Vallejo, CA, Estados Unidos. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy; Profesor de Farmacia Clínica y Practica, Facultad de Farmacia, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁴ Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy; Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁵ Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice; Profesor de Medicamentos y Atención Sanitaria, Departmento de Farmacia, Escuela de Ciencias Aplicadas, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, Reino Unido. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁶ International Journal of Pharmacy Practice; Profesor Emerito (Atención Primaria), Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas de la Salud, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Escocia, Reino Unido. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁷ Pharmaceutical Care España; Presidente, Fundación Pharmaceutical Care España, Barcelona, España. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁸ Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy; Profesor Asociado, Departmento de Farmacia, University of Copenhagen, Dinamarca. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁹ Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy; Professor Asociado, Departmento de Farmacia, University of Copenhagen, Copenague, Dinamarca. Electronic address: [email protected].
¹⁰ European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy: Profesor Asociado, Departmento de Medicina Experimental e Salud Pública, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italia. Electronic address: [email protected].
¹¹ Ars Pharmaceutica; Profesor, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Granada, España. Electronic address: [email protected].
¹² Farmacia Hospitalaria; Farmacia, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío; Investigador Asociado, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS), Sevilla, España. Electronic address: [email protected].
¹³ Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy; Profesor Asociado, Facultad de Farmacia y Ciencias de la Salud, Western New England University, Springfield, MA, Estados Unidos. Electronic address: [email protected].
¹⁴ Pharmacy Practice; Investigador, Health & Technology Research Center (H&TRC), Escuela Superior de Tecnologia de la Salud (ESTeSL), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 37198084
DOI: 10.1016/j.farma.2023.04.001

Abstract

Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences embrace a series of different disciplines. Pharmacy practice has been defined as "the scientific discipline that studies the different aspects of the practice of pharmacy and its impact on health care systems, medicine use, and patient care". Thus, pharmacy practice studies embrace both clinical pharmacy and social pharmacy elements. Like any other scientific discipline, clinical and social pharmacy practice disseminates research findings using scientific journals. Clinical pharmacy and social pharmacy journal editors have a role in promoting the discipline by enhancing the quality of the articles published. As has occurred in other health care areas (i.e., medicine and nursing), a group of clinical and social pharmacy practice journal editors gathered in Granada, Spain to discuss how journals could contribute to strengthening pharmacy practice as a discipline. The result of that meeting was compiled in these Granada Statements, which comprise 18 recommendations gathered into six topics: the appropriate use of terminology, impactful abstracts, the required peer reviews, journal scattering, more effective and wiser use of journal and article performance metrics, and authors' selection of the most appropriate pharmacy practice journal to submit their work. © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Elsevier Inc, Springer Nature, Brazilian Society of Hospital Pharmacy and Health Services, Elsevier Inc, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Biomedcentral, Sociedad Española de Farmacia Hospitalaria (S.E.F.H), Pharmaceutical Care España Foundation, European Association of Hospital Pharmacists, Faculty of Pharmacy.

Keywords: Ciencias farmacéuticas; Clinical Pharmacy journals; Farmacia asistencial; Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences; Pharmacy practice; Revistas de farmacia clínica; Revistas de farmacia social; Social Pharmacy journals; Terminology; Terminología.

MeSH terms

Humans
Pharmacies*
Pharmacists
Pharmacy Service, Hospital*
Pharmacy*
Spain