Drug Use Evaluation   

Websites:    

• Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical/Defined Daily Dose (ATC/DD) Index 2011 (WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology)
• Canada's Food and Drugs Act and Regulations (Health Canada)
• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
• Drug Utilization Evaluations (Medscape, registration required)
• Drugs and Health Products (Health Canada)
• Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies (WHO)
• WHO Essential Medicines Library

Clinical Practice Guideline Sources

• See Clinical Practice Guidelines

Drug Utilization Initiatives

• British Columbia Community Drug Utilization Program (BC CDUP)
• Drug Evaluation Alliance of Nova Scotia (DEANS)
• National Prescribing Service (NPS) (Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing)
• Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project (QUMMAP) (Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing)
• RxFiles

Evidence-Based Drug Information

•  ACP Journal Club (American College of Physicians) - $
  
• ACP PIER - $
• Bandolier
• Clinical Evidence (BMJ) - $
• Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) (Oregon Health & Science University)
• National Prescribing Service (NPS) (Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing)
• RxFiles
• SUMSearch (UT Health Science Centre San Antonio)
• Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)
• Therapeutics Letter (University of British Columbia)
• Trip Database

Professional Organizations

• Canadian Association for Population Therapeutics (CAPT)
• International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD)
• International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) 
• WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics and Methodology

• American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy - $
• Annals of Pharmacotherapy - $
• Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - $
• Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy - $
• Drugs - $
• Formulary
• Medical Letter - $
• PharmacoEconomics - $ 
• Pharmacotherapy - $

• Essentials of Economic Evaluation in Healthcare (Elliott & Payne, 2004) - $
• Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes (Drummond et al. 3rd ed. 2005) - $
•  Textbook of Pharmacoepidemiology (Strom & Kimmel, 2007) - $

Dynamic Searches:   

• Follow this link to search PubMed for the latest journal articles in which Drug Utilization Review is a major concept (Drug Utilization Review is the MeSH for drug use evaluation)

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