The goal of clinical pharmacy is to optimise the drug therapy to the individual patient. To achieve this, the clinical pharmacist collaborate with both the patient and with other healthcare professionals. Clinical pharmacy comprises such patient centred work both in hospitals and in the primary care.Patients with multiple long-term conditions and their treatment needs constitutes one of the main challenges to the heathcare services today.
Our research is well aligned to the following of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
The research group uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods, as well as methods of innovation like design thinking. Several of our projects classify as health services research and are research on complex interventions.
The research group has established collaboration with a broad academic environment, with several hospitals and hospital departments, hospital pharmacies, the Faculty of Medicine, UiO, the UiO Growth House, and with other universities and research institutions in Norway and abroad. We want to strengthen our collaboration with researchers in the social sciences, implementation research, the National Network for Health Services Research, and e-health research.