Purpose These guidelines outline the recommended processes and techniques for formulary system management and describe the pharmacist's responsibilities and roles in managing the formulary system in partnership with other health care professionals. These guidelines also provide assistance to pharmacists in the organization and operation of the pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committee or equiva...

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...

These guidelines outline the recommended processes and techniques for formulary system management and describe the pharmacist’s responsibilities and roles in managing the formulary system in partnership with other health care professionals. These guidelines also provide assistance to pharmacists in the organization and operation of the pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committee or equivalent bod...

California Assembly Bill 1124 required the state's Division of Workers' Compensation in the Department of Industrial Relations to establish a drug formulary for all injured workers covered by the state's workers' compensation program. Such formularies serve to reinforce safe and effective prescribing patterns for practitioners and payers. In California, the formulary will need to be consistent ...

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...

OBJECTIVE To characterise the prescription of non-formulary drugs to children and neonates at a Brazilian teaching hospital and identify adverse drug reactions (ADRs), drug interactions, and prescription of potentially hazardous medicines. METHODS A prospective exploratory study was carried out between January and May 2011 at the general paediatric wards and paediatric oncology, paediatric in...

BACKGROUND Although medication costs make up a large and growing portion of health care costs, few interventions have successfully encouraged physicians to alter prescribing patterns. METHODS To promote the use of an open formulary, we altered the contents of the sample closets of five primary care practices in eastern Massachusetts. In these practices, we removed all nonformulary drugs in fi...