Drug formularies

Deiitscher Arzneimittel-Codex (German Drug Formulary) 1986 First-Fourth Supplement 1986-1992. Ergiinzungsbueh zum Deutschen Arzneibuch (Supplement Volume to German Pharmacopoeia, Sixth edition 1926). Reprinted 1953. 

Grabowski, Henry, and C. Daniel Mullins. 1997. Pharmacy Benefit Management Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Drug Formulary Decisions. Social Science and Medicine 45(4) 535-544. 

Selecting cost-effective and safe medicines (hospi-tal/district drug formulary)... 

The clinician must report clinically important adverse drug effects to a committee or registry, which have responsibility for deciding on drug formularies (local or national) and for advice on therapeutics. 

We are all acutely aware of the abuse potential of morphine and its derivatives. Although morphine is still a necessary agent in the physician s drug formulary, heroin is a scourge as are some of the so called "designer drug" opiates which are even more potent. 

The P T committee s primary function is to maintain a drug formulary. Pedersen et al. (2001) showed that 97.5% of hospifals reporfed fhaf formulary development and management was a primary function of a P T committee. However, key elements of managing the formularies are developing and implementing policies that assure safe and effective medication therapy within institutions. These elements were also reported as primary fxmctions by 97.1% of the hospitals surveyed. The following section reviews fhe formulary system and its management. 

Principles of a sound drug formulary system, October 2000. http //www.usp.org/ pdf/patientSafety/pSafetySndFormPrinc.pdf, accessed September 14, 2003. 

Revision of the drug formulary in order to eliminate obsolete, ineffective and unsafe products from the State Drug Register and... 

Drug utilization review Pharmacokinetic monitoring Drug formulary management Pain management Drug research and studies Nutrition... 

Drug Formulary. System—an ongoing process whereby ti health care organization, through its physicians, pharmacists, and other health care professionals, establishes policies on the use of dmg products and therapies that are the most medically appropriate and cost-effective to best serve the health interests of a given population. ... 

American Medical Association. AMA policy on drug formularies and therapeutic interchange in inpatient and ambulatory patient care settings. Am. J. Hosp. Pharm. 

Horn, S.D. Unintended consequences of drug formularies. Am., 1. Health-Syst. Pharm. 1996, 53 (18), 2204-2206. 

A health system can own and operate its own drug information service (DIS) to serve the drug information needs of pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other professional staffs within the system. In addition to drug information, the DIS focuses on drug formulary and pharmacoeconomic issues of drug products and drug use within the system. 

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