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    The Impact of a Therapeutic Interchange Program in a Managed Care Organization

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    Fish, Leslie S.
    Edelman-Lewis, Barbara
    UMass Chan Affiliations
    Meyers Primary Care Institute
    Document Type
    Journal Article
    Publication Date
    1999-09-01
    Keywords
    Pharmaceutical Preparations
    Drug Utilization
    Drug Costs
    Managed Care Programs
    Health Services Research
    Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Primary Care
    
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    http://www.amcp.org/JMCP/1999/September/6142/1033.html
    Abstract
    OBJECTIVE: To show how therapeutic interchange, one of the tools used to manage pharmaceutical utilization, can save money while ensuring high-quality care and patient and physician satisfaction. DESIGN: Patients using nifedipine gastrointestinal system were switched to nifedipine core-coat product. SETTING: A multispecialty group practice that employs more than 250 physicians in some 23 specialties, with responsibility for more than 200,000 patients as of November 1997. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The number of patients able to switch successfully and the savings in costs. CONCLUSIONS: Managed care organizations can use utilization management tools successfully to assure quality care at lower costs. In the long term, this switch benefited both patients and plan. KEYWORDS: Therapeutic interchange, Nifedipine (GITS), Nifedipine core-coat
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    Fish LS, Edelman-Lewis B. The Impact of a Therapeutic Switching Program in a Managed Care Organization. J Managed Care Pharm 1999;5(5):438-441.

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