Pharmacy Practice Research Award

The Pharmacy Practice Research Award recognizes an outstanding original contribution to the peer-reviewed biomedical literature related to pharmacy practice in hospitals and health systems. The award is given annually to the author(s) of an important contribution of original research relevant to health-system pharmacy practice published during the calendar year preceding the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting at which the Award is presented. This award is not intended to recognize research in drug therapy (See the Drug Therapy Research Award).


Description of Award
The recipient of this award receives a $4,000 honorarium, a $1,000 expense allowance to attend the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting for the award ceremony and a plaque.


Eligibility
Nomination
The ASHP Foundation will request nominations from ASHP component groups (e.g., sections, advisory groups), the editors of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and deans of schools/colleges of pharmacy. In addition, individual ASHP members and affiliated state societies may nominate candidates for awards. Authors may nominate themselves as well. 

Articles
For this award, research refers to formalized testing using the scientific approach, and includes survey research, modeling, comparative studies, meta-analysis and other types of research publications that are not research in drug therapy (see Drug Therapy Research Award). 

Contributions to the biomedical literature eligible for the award may include published materials appearing in the primary literature (electronic or print) that are widely available. The work should reveal (or it should be obvious) that the problem studied was derived from or is applicable to pharmacy practice in hospitals and health systems. 

The article submitted for the Pharmacy Practice Research Award must have been published in a PubMed-indexed, peer-reviewed biomedical journal in the 2010 calendar year.

Author
For this Award, the applicant must be a pharmacist. The applicant must be either the first or second author listed on the nominated article. To be eligible for this award, the applicant must have participated in each of the following:

(1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
(2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
(3) final approval of the version to be published.

To be eligible for this award, all three conditions must be met.


Selection Process
The ASHP Foundation reserves the right to change the categorization for submitted articles at the discretion of ASHP Foundation staff and external reviewers. For example, an article submitted through the Award for Innovation in Pharmacy Practice category could be re-classified to the Pharmacy Practice Research Award category.

Complete applications will be reviewed by members of a review panel appointed by the ASHP Foundation Board of Directors. 

The recipient of the award will be notified after the balloting is completed and a public announcement will be made prior to the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting. Awards are formally presented during the Literature Awards Breakfast at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting. 


Selection Criteria
The maximum possible overall score is 20 points, and the criterion Originality, Impact, Innovation, and Quality (5 points per criterion x 4 criteria).  
 

Score Ranking and Descriptors

4.6 – 5.0

Outstanding Scientific Merit

4.0- 4.5

Excellent

3.0 – 3.9

Very Good

2.1 – 2.9

Good

1.1 – 2.0

Fair

0 – 1.0

Poor



Award Recipients
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