The Impact of a Therapeutic Interchange Program in a Managed Care Organization
| dc.contributor.author | Fish, Leslie S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Edelman-Lewis, Barbara | |
| dc.date | 2022-08-11T08:09:23.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-23T16:29:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-23T16:29:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-09-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2012-08-06 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | <p>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.</p> | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/37154 | |
| dc.description.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 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.amcp.org/JMCP/1999/September/6142/1033.html | |
| dc.subject | Pharmaceutical Preparations | |
| dc.subject | Drug Utilization | |
| dc.subject | Drug Costs | |
| dc.subject | Managed Care Programs | |
| dc.subject | Health Services Research | |
| dc.subject | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
| dc.subject | Primary Care | |
| dc.title | The Impact of a Therapeutic Interchange Program in a Managed Care Organization | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy | |
| dc.source.volume | 5 | |
| dc.source.issue | 5 | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/meyers_pp/537 | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 3181601 | |
| html.description.abstract | <p>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.</p> <p>DESIGN: Patients using nifedipine gastrointestinal system were switched to nifedipine core-coat product.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The number of patients able to switch successfully and the savings in costs.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>KEYWORDS: Therapeutic interchange, Nifedipine (GITS), Nifedipine core-coat</p> | |
| dc.identifier.submissionpath | meyers_pp/537 | |
| dc.contributor.department | Meyers Primary Care Institute | |
| dc.source.pages | 438-441 |