Computer-based drug-utilization review--risk, benefit, or boondoggle?
Computer-based drug-utilization review--risk, benefit, or boondoggle?
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基于计算机的药物利用审查——风险、益处还是无用功?
DOI:
10.1056/nejm199506153322411
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发表时间:
1995
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Lipton,HL
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作者:
Soumerai,SB;Lipton,HL
On October 28, 1990, with little debate, Congress passed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, requiring the states to provide claims-based drug-utilization review to approximately 34 million Medicaid enrollees.1,2The provisions of the program were borrowed from the ill-fated Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, repealed in 1990; the stated goals were to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing and dispensing of medications, enhance the counseling of patients, and reduce growth in expenditures for drugs.1Drug-utilization review is a structured, ongoing program that interprets patterns of drug use in relation to predetermined criteria and attempts to prevent or minimize inappropriate prescribing.3, . . .