Formulary Principles
Per ASHP, this is “a continually updated list of medications and related information, representing the clinical judgment of physicians, pharmacists, and other experts in the diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment of disease and promotion of health.”
What is a formulary?
This job profession is usually responsible for writing monographs
What is a pharmacist?
This is an unbiased evaluation of a medication to ensure efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness
What is a drug monograph?
Per ASHP, this is “a systematic approach to the evaluation of the medical literature and application to clinical practice and should be applied to formulary decision-making”
What is evidence-based medicine?
This is the first Pixar movie
What is Toy Story?
This is a formulary that has no limitations to medications by a practitioner
What is an open formulary?
The members of P&T can include which three job professions
(list the ones discussed in the lecture)
What are physicians, pharmacists, and nurses?
This section of the monograph often includes clinical data from trials
What is efficacy?
This website contains a registry of clinical trials run by the US National Library of Medicine
What is clinicaltrials.gov?
This character served as Pinocchio’s conscience
Who is Jiminy Cricket?
This tier usually contains generic drugs and is the most cost-effective
What is tier 1?
This is a quality improvement method that focuses on evaluating and improving medication-use processes with the goal of improving patient outcomes
What is a medication use evaluation?
This section of the monograph contains information about adverse drug events, discontinuations, and/or mortality
What is safety?
This type of study design is considered the lowest quality of evidence
What are expert ideas, opinions, and reviews?
Black Panther’s suit is made of this material
What is vibranium?
This committee typically manages the formulary system
What is Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Committee?
These tools are developed in the electronic health record to support formulary recommendations
What are clinical decision support tools?
These tables can help organize information from clinical trials
What are evidence tables?
This type of study design extracts and interpret data from multiple published studies and is considered the highest quality of evidence
What are systematic reviews and meta-analysis?
The length of Rapunzel's hair in the movie Tangled
What is 70 feet long?
Non-preferred medications that may require prior authorization or exceptions for use
What is non-formulary?
These strategies are implemented to limit prescribing of a medication to a certain specialty
What are prescribing restrictions?
This section of the monograph takes into consideration all the factors discussed to strategize how a medication may be used in practice.
What is the projected place in therapy?
This review compares all formulary and non-formulary medications within a class
What is a therapeutic class review?
The year Mickey Mouse Club debut on TV
What is 1955?