Personal Formularies of Primary Care Physicians Across 4 Health Care Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

More conservative prescribing has the potential to reduce adverse drug events and patient harm and cost; however, no method exists defining the extent to which individual clinicians prescribe conservatively. One potential domain is prescribing a more limited number of drugs. Personal formularies-defined as the number and mix of unique, newly initiated drugs prescribed by a physician-may enable comparisons among clinicians, practices, and institutions.

Objectives

To develop a method of defining primary care physicians' personal formularies and examine how they differ among primary care physicians at 4 institutions; evaluate associations between personal formularies and patient, physician, and practice site characteristics; and empirically derive and examine the var

SUBMITTER: Galanter W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8283562 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature