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.

OBJECTIVE Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) provides formulary information at the point of care. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of e-prescribing on formulary compliance and generic utilization. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of pharmacy claims data from a large national managed care organization. A sample of 95 providers using predominantly e-prescribing...

BACKGROUND The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) health care benefit (TRICARE) provides 9.2 million active-duty and retired uniformed services personnel and their family members with access to a comprehensive pharmacy benefit with low out-of-pocket costs. DoD's Uniform Formulary is available worldwide at DoD's 3 pharmacy points of service (military pharmacies, contracted mail order, and communit...

BACKGROUND Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is undeniably changing how drugs are developed, launched, priced, and reimbursed in the United States. But most organizations are still evaluating what CER can do for them and how and when they can utilize the data. A roundtable of stakeholders, including formulary decision makers, evaluated CER's possible effects on managed care organizations...

This article presents the third in a series of three interviews that P&T conducted with several members of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Expert Panel on Formulary Management.In 2008, ASHP convened this panel of experts to develop revised guidelines for P&T committee and formulary management to replace the previous guidance issued in 1991.1 These revised guidelines inc...

In 1995, changes in our hospital formulary were made to limit an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and resulted in decreased usage of cephalosporins, imipenem, clindamycin, and vancomycin and increased usage of beta-lactam/beta-lactamase-inhibitor antibiotics. In this report, the effect of this formulary change on other resistant pathogens is described. Following the formulary change...

A novel formulary has been developed in Nova Scotia with the objective of providing quality treatment with needed medications at affordable cost. Creation of the formulary has involved collaboration among health care professionals, seniors, the Department of Health and pharmaceutical companies. This is the first Canadian formulary to use the Anatomic, Therapeutic, Chemical system. Drug listing ...

This study aims to analyze drug formulations in the pharmaceutical installation at Royal Prima General Hospital Medan. The method this research is descriptive qualitative. results showed that hospital had prepared formularies, maintained formalities, supervised adherence formulary use, and proposed formulae installations. In conclusion, has carried out a installation.
 
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