Promoting appropriate use of medicines in a healthcare system

Marion Bennie, Amanj Kurdi, Yared Santa-Ana-Téllez

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Abstract

Appropriate and efficient utilization of medicines is crucial to ensure their safe and effective use and support sustainable healthcare systems. Efforts to maximise the rational use of medicines within a health system are a central focus in the drive to secure the best use of limited resources. The common areas of inappropriate use range from overuse/underuse of medicines to use of originators in the presence of generic and biosimilar alternatives. Pharmacotherapy is considered as the key component for preventing, treating, and managing the majority of medical conditions and, as such, medicines are the most common intervention in healthcare. Strategies and measures for established medicines can helpfully be categorised into “supply-side” measures and “demand-side” measures. Drug utilization studies are a key tool to describe medicines use and measure impact, ranging from observational uncontrolled retrospective studies to segmented regression analysis of an interrupted time-series design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDrug Utilization Research
Subtitle of host publicationMethods and Applications: Second Edition
Publisherwiley
Pages248-257
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781119911685
ISBN (Print)9781119911654
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Demand-side measures
  • Drug utilization
  • Healthcare systems
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Supply-side measures

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