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The Utrecht Pharmacy Practice network for Education and Research: a network of community and hospital pharmacies in the Netherlands

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Practice-based networks can serve as effective mechanisms for the development of the profession of pharmacists, on the one hand by supporting student internships and on the other hand by collection of research data and implementation of research outcomes among public health practice settings. This paper presents the characteristics and benefits of the Utrecht Pharmacy Practice network for Education and Research, a practice based research network affiliated with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Utrecht University. Yearly, this network is used to realize approximately 600 student internships (in hospital and community pharmacies) and 20 research projects. To date, most research has been performed in community pharmacy and research questions frequently concerned prescribing behavior or adherence and subjects related to uptake of regulations in the pharmacy setting. Researchers gain access to different types of data from daily practice, pharmacists receive feedback on the functioning of their own pharmacy and students get in depth insight into pharmacy practice.

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The authors would like to acknowledge all the pharmacies participating in the UPPER network.

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  1. UPPER, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht Institute of Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80082, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ellen S. Koster, Lyda Blom, Daphne Philbert, Willem Rump & Marcel L. Bouvy

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Koster, E.S., Blom, L., Philbert, D. et al. The Utrecht Pharmacy Practice network for Education and Research: a network of community and hospital pharmacies in the Netherlands. Int J Clin Pharm 36, 669–674 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-014-9954-5

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