Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Retail Pharmacy Utilization Intervention at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital

摘要

In September 2008, the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital (GLWACH) Pharmacy Department executed an initiative to reduce the utilization of retail pharmacy services. This initiative was implemented due to the increase in retail prescription drug spending that prompted the Government Accountability Office to recommend individual Military Treatment Facilities (MTF) identify ways to reduce local retail pharmacy spending. The primary objective of this study was to determine if the GLWACH pharmacy intervention resulted in a significant change in utilization of retail and MTF pharmacy services using a chi-square statistical test with a preset alpha level of signficance of .05. The result of the test X2(1,N=22050)=.05, p=.8310 indicated an inability to reject the null hypothesis (H0:P1=P2): no significant difference between pre-intervention and post-intervention MTF and retail pharmacy utilization.