Narrow, complex formularies are of particular concern to consumers who need specific medications as determined by their doctors.
Research studies show that this can influence behavior, like how often a doctor will try to have a drug from that particular company put on his hospital's formulary.
Formulary decision support should be studied further, with particular attention to its effect on adherence in the setting of different benefit designs.
A formulary is a list of drugs covered by a particular insurance plan.
Drawing on her working experience of the Read code formulary and her understanding of the relative importance of particular diagnoses she made judgements regarding what constitutes a reasonable amount of time and effort to spend seeking out particular codes and resolving particular 'diagnostic' dilemmas.
There are, for example, many anti-cholesterol drugs, but a formulary may not include the drug that works best for a particular patient.
Moreover, due to the extra work load involved in processing many requests for a particular drug, in all the visited hospitals the committee decided to formally include the medicine in the formulary without a formal application for the drug, or by asking doctors to submit a formal application.
Nowadays such organisations are increasingly undertaking or commissioning HTAs to inform a particular resource allocation decision, i.e. appraisals such as: listing a drug on a national or local formulary, defining coverage and insurance plans, and issuing mandatory guidance on the use of health care technologies [ 2].
In particular, the lower risk of hospitalization combined with lower total costs compared to quetiapine represent two attractive outcomes for formulary decision-makers responsible for the entire costs of care [ 22].
In particular, this paper compares Uftoral® (tegafur uracil), with capecitabine, based on unit costs for drugs as outlined in the British National Formulary, 2002.
