A single patient encounter may generate multiple treatment visits, since each product dispensed generates a separate treatment visit.
For each prescription dispensed, the collected data include a de-identified patient code, the date of prescription, the product identifier (PZN) and the quantity of drug product dispensed.
Prescription drug claims identified the specific product dispensed, quantity, strength, the date the prescription was filled, and the associated drug acquisition cost.
In the UK, the Dynamic Prescription database is a variant of the LRx database and captures data on the drug prescribed, the product dispensed, and the prescriber.
The average monthly usage was calculated for each product by dividing the total volume of product dispensed per month by the number of patients filling prescriptions for the product in that month.
This detailed list of drug formulary allows the researcher to provide information on prescriptions of each NSAIDs product dispensed to their beneficiaries and associated cost paid by the NHI at the level of product.
GG and SR are employees of and own stock in Amgen Inc. GG has provided expert testimony on behalf of Amgen Inc. in support of legislation in US states that allows for automatic substitution of FDA-approved interchangeable biologic products with provisions to communicate and record the biologic product dispensed.
Prescribers and dispensers, as well as their organisations, should ensure that they have adequate liability insurance to cover ADRs from ULM. Prescribers are increasingly being asked to prescribe using generic names for products, and there must be systems in place to ensure that the product dispensed is one that is licensed and not a cheaper unlicensed version.
However, the effectiveness of the SRS in the pharmacy setting may be compromised because lot numbers are not available to the prescriber, and because prescriber records may not reflect the actual product dispensed in the case of a prescription by nonproprietary name or an automatic pharmacy substitution, thereby limiting accurate patient and prescriber AE reporting.
