Early Career Research Grant - Developing innovative and Inter professional models of care to improve patient adherence

Project Member(s): Garcia Cardenas, M.

Start year: 2015

Summary: The ECR Grant would allow me (1) to commence an innovative project to generate pilot data, which I would use to develop a research proposal and (2) develop international research connections and research projects. If awarded, I am planning to invest the funding in two core activities: 1. Generate pilot data to develop an international research proposal I¿ll focus on exploring and developing innovative and inter professional models of care to improve patient adherence. The data generated from this explorative qualitative research will allow me to apply for research grants and to test the model produced. 2. Conference funding I am keen to develop international research collaborations, particularly with KTP in The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and PhD cotutelle arrangements with the University of Granada, Spain. The UTS Research office has approved a Key Technology Partner Visiting Fellow application from PCU (Dr. Cristian Plaza) and I¿m already co-supervising three PhD Students from the University of Granada. I would link visits to these Universities with two international research conferences. These conferences would allow me to foster existing relationships and meet leading researches in my field of adherence, asthma and interprofessional models of collaboration and disseminate my early results of my research. The objective is to trigger the establishment of new research collaborations, with international experts in my research field. The conferences are: ¿ 76th International Pharmaceutical Federation Word Conference, Buenos Aires 2016 ¿ European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistence 2016

Publications:

Cutler, RL, Torres-Robles, A, Wiecek, E, Drake, B, Van der Linden, N, Benrimoj, SIC & Garcia-Cardenas, V 2019, '<p>Pharmacist-led medication non-adherence intervention: reducing the economic burden placed on the Australian health care system</p>', Patient Preference and Adherence, vol. Volume 13, pp. 853-862.
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Torres-Robles, A, Wiecek, E, Cutler, R, Drake, B, Benrimoj, SI, Fernandez-Llimos, F & Garcia-Cardenas, V 2019, 'Using Dispensing Data to Evaluate Adherence Implementation Rates in Community Pharmacy', Frontiers in Pharmacology, vol. 10, no. FEB, p. 130.
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Garcia-Cardenas, V, Perez-Escamilla, B, Fernandez-Llimos, F & Benrimoj, SI 2018, 'The complexity of implementation factors in professional pharmacy services', Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 498-500.
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Torres-Robles, A, Wiecek, E, Tonin, FS, Benrimoj, SI, Fernandez-Llimos, F & Garcia-Cardenas, V 2018, 'Comparison of Interventions to Improve Long-Term Medication Adherence Across Different Clinical Conditions: A Systematic Review With Network Meta-Analysis', Frontiers in Pharmacology, vol. 9.
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Garcia-Cardenas, V, Benrimoj, SI, Ocampo, CC, Goyenechea, E, Martinez–Martinez, F & Gastelurrutia, MA 2017, 'Evaluation of the implementation process and outcomes of a professional pharmacy service in a community pharmacy setting. A case report', Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 614-627.
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Garcia-Cardenas, V, Armour, C, Benrimoj, SI, Martinez-Martinez, F, Rotta, I & Fernandez-Llimos, F 2016, 'Pharmacists' interventions on clinical asthma outcomes: a systematic review', EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 1134-1143.
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FOR Codes: Health and Community Services, Evaluation of Health Outcomes

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.