Drug Cost Awareness

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Identifier 059_PMR-CQI-Drug-Cost-Poster-Nuovo-Kirk-Lee-Jensen-Garstang_EBPF2017
Title Drug Cost Awareness
Creator Nuovo, Allison; Kirk, Melissa; Lee, Venessa; Jensen, Benjamin; Garstang, Susan
Subject Evidence-Based Practice; Prescription Drugs; Drug Costs; Polypharmacy; Fees, Pharmaceutical; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Medication Adherence; Physicians; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Quality Improvement; Poster
Description Polypharmacy and prohibitive drug costs are common problems for patients being discharged from the inpatient rehabilitation unit at the University of Utah Medical Center (UUMC). Prohibitive drug costs borne by patients may result in decreased compliance and adversely affect outcomes. Currently, it is difficult for resident and attending physicians to anticipate these drug costs prior to discharge. We hypothesize that residents in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) program at UUMC have insufficient training on the cost of drugs commonly prescribed at the time of discharge on the inpatient rehab unit. The goal of this quality improvement (QI) study is to assess whether improved awareness of drug costs will decrease the overall expense of medications prescribed at discharge. There is ongoing discussion to improve access to drug cost, implement a smart up-to-date drug cost tool into the EMR.
Relation is Part of Evidence Based Practice Posters - 2017
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Date Digital 2017
Date 2017
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Rights Management Copyright 2017. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
Language eng
ARK ark:/87278/s6sj5z2j
Setname ehsl_ebp
ID 1399428
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sj5z2j
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