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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Quality Assurance, Health Care > Utilization Review > Drug Utilization Review
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Quality Assurance, Health Care > Utilization Review > Drug Utilization Review
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Organization and Administration > Pharmacy Administration > Drug Utilization > Drug Utilization Review

Preferred term

Drug Utilization Review  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Formal programs for assessing drug prescription against some standard. Drug utilization review may consider clinical appropriateness, cost effectiveness, and, in some cases, outcomes. Review is usually retrospective, but some analysis may be done before drugs are dispensed (as in computer systems which advise physicians when prescriptions are entered). Drug utilization review is mandated for Medicaid programs beginning in 1993.

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Entry terms

  • Drug-Use Review
  • Drug Utilization Evaluation
  • Evaluation, Drug Utilization
  • Review, Drug-Use
  • Review, Drug Utilization
  • Utilization Review, Drug

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In other languages

  • Revue des pratiques de prescription des médicaments

    French

  • Évaluation de l'utilisation des médicaments
  • Évaluation de la prescrition des médicaments
  • Évaluation de la prescrition médicamenteuse
  • Examen de l'utilisation des médicaments
  • Révision de l'utilisation des médicaments
  • Revue des pratiques de prescription médicamenteuse

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-V419M45W-R

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