Evaluation drug use

Focused drug use evaluation (drug utilization review) can be done to identify problems concerning the use of specific medicines or the treatment of specific diseases, particularly in hospitals. The qualitative methods employed in social science (e.g. focus group discussion, in-depth interviews, structured observation and structured questionnaires), can be used to investigate the motives underlying irrational use. All data collected should be used to design interventions and to measure the impact of those interventions on medicine use. 

Implementing and evaluating strategies to improve medicine use (including drug use evaluation, and liaison with antibiotic and infection control committees)... 

Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. Concepts in managed care drug use evaluation. Alexandria, VA. 1999. 

Bowman L. Drug use evaluation is DUE healthcare utilization evaluation is over-DUE. Hasp Pharm. 1996 31 347-353. 

Todd MW. Drug use evaluation. In Handbook of Institutional Pharmacy Practice. American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Bethesda, MD, 1996, chap. 24, pp. 261-271. 

Drug use evaluation Determine drug shortage alternative plan Evaluate use of chemical restraints... 

Drug-use evaluation criteria that have been put forth by ASHP. - These criteria serve as guidelines for quality assurance. 

Employs drug usage evaluation information to alter therapy effectively. Participates in drug use evaluation programs. 

Participating in continuous quality improvement and quality assurance activities, including drug-use evaluations and cost-avoidance and cost-effectiveness studies... 

Drug use evaluation Drug surveiilance Ciinicai trials... 

Drug Use Evaluation, The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. http //amcp.org/public/pubs/concepts/druguse.html (accessed March 2001). 

The Academy of Managed Care Phamacy. Drug Use Evaluation. In Concepts in Managed Care Pharmacy Approved by the AMCP Board of Directors, June 12, 1999 (accessed at http //www.amcp.org/professional res/ concepts/index concepts.asp, July, 2002). 

Criteria for Drug Use Evaluation, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Bethcsda, Maryland, 1993 Vol. 4. 

Policy document Pharmacoepidemiology and drug use evaluation (Sociedad Espanola de Farmacia Hospitalaria, 1992)P ... 

Types of drug use evaluation reports, postmarketing pharmacovigilance trials and eeonomic appraisal in the context of pharmacoepidemiology are described. 

Quality of care for individuals with psychiatric illness has come under scrutiny with several studies documenting a need for improvement in medication management. - Psychiatric pharmacists have the opportunity to improve care through quality assurance surveys/drug-use evaluations, patient and staff education,and direct medication management." Psychiatric pharmacist specialists are an important community resource for consumer advocacy groups such as NAMI, also known as the National Alliance for the Mentally 111. - "... 

A continuous drug use evaluation process must be in place for regular review of endorsed therapeutic interchange policies and procedures. 

Drug use evaluation (DUE) reviews the types of medications prescribed within an institution. This process could identify prescription orders to which therapeutic... 

Cost is defined as the value of the resources consumed by a program or drug therapy of interest. Consequence is defined as the effects, outputs, or outcomes of the program of drug therapy of interest. Consideration of both costs and consequences differentiates most pharmacoeconomic evaluation methods from traditional cost-containment strategies and drug-use evaluations. 

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