Drug Utilization Review | |
---|---|
Type | Pharmaceuticals policy |
Established | 1969 |
Area size | major in Koern[clarification needed] and America |
Establishments | private pharmaceutical management company |
Drug utilization review refers to a review of prescribing, dispensing, administering and ingesting of medication.[1] This authorized, structured and ongoing review is related to pharmacy benefit managers.[2] Drug use/ utilization evaluation and medication utilization evaluations are the same as drug utilization review.[3]
With the development of society and the economy, the costs of health care grows rapidly, and this becomes a burden on the worldwide health protection system.[4] Aging populations, a changing disease spectrum, and the progress and change in technology of health care become the major problems which lead to increasing of health care costs.[4] Then, how to use drug utilization evaluation and drug economy evaluation to improve and optimize the allocation of medical and health resources is a major problem faced by many countries.[4]
Drug utilization reviews will help ensure that drugs are used appropriately (for individual patients). In the drug utilization review, medicine and health history including all phases of dispensing for a patient is exactly listed.[1] Also, this review is designed to attempt to attain proper decision making therapeutically and gain a positive outcome for the patient.[1] If treatment is considered inappropriate, it will be necessary to intervene with providers or patients to optimize medication.[5] Then, especially in the community medicine setting, Drug utilization review plays a key role for pharmacist.[6] In addition, The World Health Organization (WHO) regards drug utilization as 4 phases of drugs in society. These four phases are marketing, distribution, prescription and usage.[3]