The National Formulary

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Pharmacopoeia is an official reference containing a selected drugs/medicinal preparations with their description, tests for their identity, purity and potency and with their average doses. A few famous pharmacopoeia and other reference books are the Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP), the British Pharmacopoeia (BP); the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP); the British Pharmaceutical Codex (BPC); the Natio...

British National Formulary: its birth, death, and rebirth.

The British National Formulary is a direct descendant of the National War Formulary, in which the titles of the preparations were in Latin and the doses in minims and grains. The British National Formulary was born in 1948, did a good job for about 20 years, but sickened and died in 1976. It was reborn in 1981. Parturition was painful with a very hostile reception from the media and the drug in...

Developing a national formulary based on a unified payment system in Iran

INTRODUCTION The national formulary plays an important role in increasing access to medicine and correct drug information based on national considerations. However, this study aimed to provide a model for development of national formulary based on a unified payment system in Iran. METHODS This study used a combination of descriptive, comparative, and qualitative methods. It was an applied dev...

An Annual Formulary Review Strategy Implemented by a Saudi Health System.

As in the U.S., there is no unified national formulary in Saudi Arabia, so individual institutions must develop their own medication lists. A Saudi health system's strategy for maintaining formulary safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness is described.

Chairman of the Joint Formulary Committee, British National Formulary.