Abstract:
BACKGROUND:The high consumption of hypolipidaemic agents warrants the study of the costs caused by these medicines being inadequately prescribed. OBJECTIVE:To quantify the economic cost generated in 1 year in primary care by inadequate (or unnecessary) prescriptions for hypolipidaemic drugs. METHODS:A cross-sectional study based on hypolipidaemic drug prescriptions for a population of pensioners ordered during 1 year by 49 family physicians from 4 health areas in Madrid, Spain. Each doctor completed a data collection sheet for each patient for whom a hypolipidaemic agent was prescribed. The adequacy of each prescription was evaluated according to 2 quality levels: for level 1, it was necessary to have knowledge of the following parameters: total cholesterol level at the start of treatment, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level, whether dietary intervention preceded pharmacological treatment, patient age and risk factors; for level 2, it was not necessary to have knowledge of either diet before pharmacological treatment or LDL-C levels. Inadequate expenditure was quantified by physician, by type of doctor who initiated the pharmacological treatment (the family physician, specialist, other doctor), therapeutic group and agent. STUDY PERSPECTIVE:Primary healthcare management of 4 public health areas. RESULTS:The cost of inadequate prescriptions for hypolipidaemic drugs reached 116,480.60 US dollars ($US; 1997 values) for quality level 1 and $US37,893.37 for level 2. 12.3% of the health professionals ordered all their prescriptions inadequately (level 1). Of the total inadequate prescription expenditure, 20.4% represented treatments initiated by family physicians and 35.3% by specialists (level 1). Statins made up 78.2% of the total cost; the inadequate expenditure for this therapeutic group reached $US88,797 (level 1). Of the prescriptions for fibrates, 88% were inadequate (level 1). CONCLUSIONS:In this study, 67% of prescriptions for hypolipidaemic medicines were ordered inadequately in the pensioner population, which represents a considerable pharmacological expenditure. This percentage and the mean cost per inadequate prescription was higher if a specialist was the professional initiating the treatment. Therefore, it is necessary to run pharmaceutical prescription quality programmes with both primary care physicians and specialists involved.
journal_name
Pharmacoeconomicsjournal_title
PharmacoEconomicsauthors
Ballesteros LC,Fernández San Martín MI,Sanz Cuesta T,Escortell Mayor E,López Bilbao Cdoi
10.2165/00019053-200119050-00006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2001-01-01 00:00:00pages
513-22issue
5 Pt 1eissn
1170-7690issn
1179-2027journal_volume
19pub_type
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