Abstract COVID-19 therapies were challenging to deploy due evolving literature and conflicting guidelines. Antimicrobial stewardship can help optimize drug use. We conducted a survey understand the role of formulary restrictions during pandemic. Restrictions for common approval by infectious disease physicians often required.

The term 'generic prescribing' describes the use in prescribing of a non-proprietary title for a pharmaceutical preparation. The non-proprietary titles in the British National Formulary (BNF) are often titles from the European Pharmacopoeia, British Pharmacopoeia or British Pharmaceutical Codex 1973. In this way we know that the preparations prescribed by non-proprietary title must comply with ...

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Selective pressures generated by the indiscriminate use of beta-lactam antibiotics have resulted in increased bacterial resistance across all beta-lactams classes. In particular, the use of third-generation cephalosporins has been associated with the emergence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing and AmpC beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and vancomycin-resistant enterococci....

In Canada, coverage for ambulatory prescription drug expenditures is provided to some groups by provincial drug plans through a provincial formulary. Little is known about the drugs provincial formularies give access to. We report the variation in availability of new drug molecules (NDM) across provincial formularies. We identified 108 NDM approved in Canada between 1991 and 1998. From each dru...

Success of the Medicare prescription drug benefit depends on private organizations offering beneficiaries appropriate access to medications while controlling costs. There is limited guidance, however, as to what constitutes best practice in benefit and formulary design. This issue brief examines Medicare stand-alone prescription drug plans in the four most populous Medicare states-California, F...

The authors have stated that the accuracy of dose was checked from standard neonatal formularies, viz. British National Formulary 2005 and Neofax 2008, and stated that 75% of medications were not approved by FDA for neonatal use. They have not mentioned the document or the source that they relied upon to classify the drug as off-label or otherwise. It may not be advisable to decide if use of a ...

In this article, the problems encountered in the rational use of drugs are discussed, one of the areas of optimization of drug supply being the rational choice of drugs, particularly, a regulatory activity regarding the approach to the selection of standardized drug lists (drug formulary) for public drug supply, according to government guarantees and programs. !e clinical aspects of the drug se...

This paper describes a project in which a voluntary preferred prescribing list (general practice formulary), analogous to those already in use in some hospitals, was created, implemented and monitored. Cooperation between a pharmacist with knowledge of drug information, access to specialist advice and back-up in the form of evaluated information from drug information centres and a group of five...