background: drug utilization evaluation (due) is an effective process in order to identifying variability in drug use and subsequent application of effective interventions for improving  patient outcomes. in this study, appropriate uses of drugs were evaluated by pharmacy service. methods : a prospective, interventional study was designed for determining frequency and type of clinical pharmacis...

Objective: Irrational use of antibacterials is a concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospital pharmacoepidemiology studies are important for evaluating rational medicines, especially antibacterials, pandemics. Defined daily doses (DDD) and drug utilization 90% (DU90%) established methods evaluation utilization. We aimed to evaluate antibacterial in tertiary hospital setting at Koç University ...

BACKGROUND The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 offered the promise that prospective drug utilization review (pDUR) systems would improve the quality of drug prescribing and patient drug use. There is little evidence that this promise has been fulfilled. To the contrary, there is growing evidence that suboptimal use of drugs (in terms of preventable drug-related morbidity) is at least ...

CONTEXT Retrospective drug utilization review is required of all state Medicaid programs and is performed by most private-sector prescription programs. However, it has not been shown to improve clinical outcomes or reduce the rate of potential prescribing errors, known as "exceptions." OBJECTIVE To look for an effect of retrospective drug utilization review on the rate of exceptions and of cl...

The aim of this study was evaluation of enoxaparin utilization in hospitalized patients who had received enoxaparin either for prophylaxis or for treatment of thromboembolic disorders. A total of  356 patients were included in this retrospective study and were analyzed for enoxaparin utilization in terms of prescription patterns, treatment strategy, dosing regimen, indications/contraindica...