A method to identify prescription drug targets for health technology reassessment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The simultaneous existence of low-value health care and underutilization of high-value care are global problems. Health technology reassessment (HTR) aims to optimize the value for money of technologies already in use within health care. Identifying candidate interventions for HTR remains challenging. Therefore, we tested a novel method to identify candidate outpatient prescription drugs for HTR through practice variation.

Methods

We used administrative data for all publicly funded outpatient prescriptions dispensed to persons aged 65 or older in Alberta in 2023. Through quantitative comparison of funnel plots for Anatomic Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classes at the fourth level stratified by prescriber specialty, variation in prescription dispensation rates betwe

SUBMITTER: Hofmeister M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12689240 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature