TO STUDY HOSPITAL FORMULARY MANAGEMENT IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

摘要

Access to all medicines that is required in a hospital is needed to be looked after by the hospital management. Formulary list contains those drugs. It is important that all the hospitals have their own formulary list so that these drugs are procured, purchased and used for the patients. Formulary list is a list of drugs selected based on the criteria of safety, efficacy and cost to meet the major requirement of hospital Formulary is a manual that describes each and every medicine or drug enlisted in formulary list i.e. formulary includes strength, dose, dosage form, adverse effects etc of drugs. Which drugs are to be selected, depends on many factors, such as the pattern of prevalent diseases, the treatment facilities, the training and experience of available personnel, the financial resources, and genetic, demographic and environmental factors and selection criteria A drug and therapeuti cs committee (DTC) can significantly improve drug use and reduce costs in hospitals and other health care facilities: inventory can be defined as an idle resource which has an economic value. It is however, commonly used to indicate various items of stores kept in stock in order to meet future demands. Many national EDLs now indicate the level of use for each drug, e.g. dispensary, health centre, general hospital, or referral hospital. Like STGs, the leveled EDL should be revised frequently. The EDL can be used as the basis for procure formulary. It can also be used to identify product areas for selective support to the national pharmaceutical industry, for targeted quality assurance, or as a basis for insurance reimbursement. Simply producing and distributing an EDL has been shown to have no effect. As with clinical guidelines, EDLs must be actively implemented