Drug Utilization Review

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A pharmacy management intervention for optimizing drug therapy for nursing home patients. 
  • A summated score for the medication appropriateness index: development and assessment of clinimetric properties including content validity. 
  • Accuracy of Administrative Data for Antimicrobial Administration in Hospitalized Children. 
  • Analysis of the North Carolina long-term care polypharmacy initiative: a multiple-cohort approach using propensity-score matching for both evaluation and targeting. 
  • Antihyperglycemic Medication Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Heart Failure, Diabetes Mellitus, and Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Antihypertensive adherence and outcomes among community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Antimicrobial stewardship: philosophy versus practice. 
  • Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised? 
  • Appropriateness of medication prescribing in ambulatory elderly patients. 
  • Appropriateness of therapy with angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors in elderly outpatients. 
  • Availability and use of essential medicines in China: manufacturing, supply, and prescribing in Shandong and Gansu provinces. 
  • Characteristics of dual drug benefit use among veterans with dementia enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Part D. 
  • Contemporary management of patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Results from the Study of Patients Intolerant of Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (SPICE) Registry. 
  • Early clopidogrel versus prasugrel use among contemporary STEMI and NSTEMI patients in the US: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly. 
  • Excessive use of vancomycin: a successful intervention strategy at an academic medical center. 
  • From physician to consumer: the effectiveness of strategies to manage health care utilization. 
  • Gaps in Evidence-Based Therapy Use in Insured Patients in the United States With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Hospital drug formularies and use of hospital services. 
  • Impact of acute beta-blocker therapy for patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on health services utilization among representative older community-dwelling residents. 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on mortality and functional status in representative community dwelling elders. 
  • Inappropriate medication use among frail elderly inpatients. 
  • Inappropriate prescribing for elderly Americans in a large outpatient population. 
  • Is medication use by community-dwelling elderly people influenced by cognitive function? 
  • Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug toxicity monitoring and safety practices. 
  • Outpatient management of heart failure in the United States, 2006-2008. 
  • Patterns of opioid analgesic prescription among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Polypharmacy management in Medicare managed care: changes in prescribing by primary care physicians resulting from a program promoting medication reviews. 
  • Potential drug-disease interactions in frail, hospitalized elderly veterans. 
  • Prasugrel Use Following PCI and Associated Patient Outcomes: Insights From the National VA CART Program. 
  • Prescription of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants for back pain in the United States. 
  • Reducing polypharmacy: evidence from a simple quality improvement initiative. 
  • Reliability of drug utilization evaluation as an assessment of medication appropriateness. 
  • Risperidone-associated diabetes mellitus: a pharmacovigilance study. 
  • Suboptimal prescribing in older inpatients and outpatients. 
  • Temporal patterns of antihypertensive medication use among older adults, 1989 through 1992. An effect of the major clinical trials on clinical practice? 
  • The quality of pharmacotherapy in older veterans discharged from the emergency department or urgent care clinic. 
  • Trends in opioid prescribing and co-prescribing of sedative hypnotics for acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain: 2001-2010. 
  • Use and Effectiveness of Bivalirudin Versus Unfractionated Heparin for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the United States. 
  • Use of hydralazine-isosorbide dinitrate combination in African American and other race/ethnic group patients with heart failure and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction. 
  • Use of inappropriate prescription drugs by older people. 
  • Use of psychotropic medications by youths in therapeutic foster care and group homes. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine