Many doctors will end up prescribing only those items on the formulary".
Items that were not useful in our assessment due to lack of information in the included studies were those that evaluated attrition/missing data and formulary restrictions (the latter was an item we added to the tool).
This nurse formulary is a nationally agreed limited list including items such as emollients, laxatives, anti-fungal preparations, some analgesics (e.g. paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen), nicotine replacement products, parasiticidal preparations, and wound management products, catheters and catheter management preparations [ 50].
Costs of the most commonly prescribed medication for tamoxifen prescriptions (TAMOXIFEN CIT_TAB 20 MG: £0.07 per quantity) and the average cost among all British National Formulary sections for other prescriptions (£11.67 per dispensed item) were used.
These items focused on immortal time bias, 29 formulary restrictions (ie, restricted access to medications based on the health care system or plan drug formulary; patient access to restricted drugs is sometimes authorized after failure of the first-line treatment), confounding by indication, 30 and unmeasured confounding.
The inclusion of medicines in the clinical practice of hospitals is as a result of doctors bypassing the PTC and requesting the purchase of exceptional items, some of which are included in the formulary if they are widely used.
The ePACT data obtained provided the following variables: the number of items prescribed by the categories in the British National Formulary (BNF) [ 53], the location by the PCT, the type of prescriber (GP or nurse), and for nurses their qualification (independent or community prescriber) and employer (PCT or a GP).
Either an exact match was made or the British National Formulary (BNF) taxonomy was utilised to attribute an average NIC per item for the BNF sub-paragraph, section or chapter.
A formulary is a list of drugs covered by a particular insurance plan.
What is a Pharmacy Formulary?
