Today's Research Is Tomorrow's Practice: Promoting a Culture of Research.

CJHP – Vol. 70, No. 3 – May–June 2017 JCPH – Vol. 70, no 3 – mai–juin 2017 pharmacy practice development and assessment within each province? I would suggest there are not enough. Generating the evidence for services provided by pharmacists requires adequate clinical and research training, lots of motivated leadership, and dedicated time and resources. Aca demia has a vested interest in this endeavour and can provide the conditions required to develop research networks, networks that will connect pharmacists to their practice sites, bring research into the real world, expand pharmacists’ roles, and ultimately have a positive effect on patient outcomes. Employers such as public and private health care organizations play a role in the adoption of newly created evidence-based practices but also in the generation of new evidence. However, from the organizations’ perspective, participation in practicebased research is often considered as an add-on to a job description, something nice to have, something that looks good in an annual report. We need stronger administrative support and leadership from these organizations in the promotion of practice-based research, such that research is valued and becomes a core component of the pharmacist role. Perhaps there is not enough buy-in from practitioners to participate in research, which is often viewed as the work of academia and is felt to be unrelated to patient care services— although survey studies have shown that Canadian pharmacists, whether in community or hospital practice, do have a positive attitude toward research.5,6 When questioned as to whether they would join a research network, survey respondents overwhelmingly answered “yes”, because of the potential benefits to be gained by joining such a group.5,6 These benefits include direct EDITORIAL