Abstract

DRUG UTILIZATION EVALUATION: AN OVERVIEW

Priyanka S.*, Shindya B., Sara Yeldhos and Ashwin Sankar T.

Abstract

Drug Utilization Evaluation (DUE), contrarily called Drug Utilization Reviews(DUR) or Medication Utilization Evaluations (MUE), are elucidated as an legalized, organized, ongoing review of healthcare provider advising, pharmacist dispensing, and patient administration of medicaments. Drug Utilization Review involve a encyclopedic appraisal of patients' prescription and medication data prior, throughout and subsequent to dispensing to make certain pertinent exercise of medication and pragmatic patient outcomes. Since the middle of twentieth century, interest in Drug Utilization Evaluation has been Increasing for appraising the quality of medical prescription and comparing patterns of use of specific drugs. It's main goal is to enhance an individual patient’s quality of life through the achievement of predefined, medication-related therapeutic outcomes. The Medication Utilization Evaluation process helps to Point out the exact and probable medication-related problems, resolve exact medication-related problems, and avert probable medication-related problems that could impede with achieving ideal outcomes from medication therapy.

Keywords: Review, prescription, Drug Utilization Evaluation.