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Shikamura Lab
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A lab that studies tools supporting pharmacists' work in community pharmacies and verifies how useful that work is.
AboutAbout the lab
The lab's motto: research themes grounded in real practice
The Shikamura Lab conducts research verifying the usefulness of pharmacists' work across all pharmacy operations.
Subjects include collecting information on drugs, collecting information from patients and customers, evaluating and using the information collected, and providing information to physicians and other healthcare professionals.
The lab also works on developing IT tools that support medication follow-up and on preventing oral frailty through community pharmacies.
Key terms
- Medication follow-up
- Efforts in which pharmacists check how patients are taking their medications even after dispensing.
- Oral frailty
- A condition in which oral functions such as chewing and swallowing gradually decline.
- Prescription inquiry
- Work in which a pharmacist contacts the prescribing physician when there is a question about a prescription.
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The lab verifies the usefulness of activities in pharmacy practice, such as collecting, evaluating, and using information and providing information to physicians and other healthcare professionals. It also develops IT tools that use pharmacies' electronic medication records to support pharmacists' medication follow-up, as well as tools for preventing oral frailty through pharmacies.
*Illustrative imageIT tools supporting medication follow-up
This research makes effective use of the electronic medication records used in pharmacies. In joint research with companies, the lab develops IT tools that use pharmacy receipt computers for dispensing and LINE to support pharmacists' medication follow-up, and verifies their usefulness.
*Illustrative imagePreventing oral frailty through pharmacies
This research aims to prevent oral frailty by making use of pharmacies. The lab develops tools to build a system for efficient collaboration with other professions, aiming at clinical application.
*Illustrative imageVerifying the usefulness of pharmacists' work
This research examines whether pharmacists' work is beneficial. The lab investigates the effects of prescription inquiries, medication follow-up, home-care services, and more.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYoshiaki Shikamura
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “NanningTianchiShanPharmacy” Félix An / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- IT tools supporting medication follow-up: “Winn Army Community Hospital Pharmacy Stays Online During Power Outage” Flickr user "MC4 Army" / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Preventing oral frailty through pharmacies: “Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Dental Care (571741)” Steve Buissinne, South Africa / CC0 (cropped)
- Verifying the usefulness of pharmacists' work: “Assistant Pharmacist” M Joko Apriyo Putro / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mano Lab): “Hospital pharmacy, 1970s ( )” University of Liverpool Faculty of Health & Life Sciences from Liverpool, United Kingdom / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Shimada Lab): “Paxlovid pills close-up” Intellec7 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kawano Lab): “CD3 Demonstration ( )” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration / Public domain (cropped)
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