Increasing attention is being paid to inappropriate medication use in nursing homes.
However, criteria defining the appropriate or inappropriate use of medication in this setting …

Over the past 30 years, an explosion In health care expenditures has occurred. Prior to
1960, health care accounted for 4.4% of the US Gross National Product; today It Is 11 …

Drug utilization studies identify and analyze problems related to prescribing, dispensing,
and ingestion of medicines, monitor changes in utilization patterns, and evaluate the impact …

The development of important methodological tools for drug utilization studies at the
beginning of the 1970s rendered possible much comparative international and interregional …

OBJETIVO: Avaliar a qualidade do uso de medicamentos através da análise do padrão do
uso, do grau de concordância com listas de medicamentos essenciais, do valor terapêutico …

Research in drug utilization began to develop in the 1960s. Some pioneering studies
focused on assessing differences in drug utilization between countries or regions. Other …

Information on pharmacoepidemiology is particularly important in develo** countries
where a rational drug policy has not been adopted. In the present study, a profile of 1769 …

Background: Drug utilization studies have become a useful tool to facilitate rational use of
drugs. A very few studies provides information on drug use patterns in children. Objectives …

En 1966 y 1967 Engel y Siderius realizaron el que se suele citar como primer estudio
comparativo internacional de utilización de medicamentos. 1 Estos autores prepararon un …

El protagonismo de los medicamentos en la Salud Pública es cada vez mayor, debido a su
importancia terapéutica, económica y social. Los estudios de utilización de medicamentos …