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Drug product selection in Illinois: the first year's experience. 1982

J E Stewart, and P G Grussing, and A A Purohit

This paper reports an evaluation of Illinois' drug product selection (DPS) law. The results show that while consumers saved an average of $1.47 whenever DPS occurred in the study period, the prescription format mandated in the Illinois law appears to be a hindrance to unambiguous communication from prescribers. In addition, because of the positive formulary approach adopted by Illinois, the potential for DPS behavior was limited to only 20.8 per cent of the prescriptions audited in the study and ultimately, DPS occurred in 12.6 per cent of this sample. It also is reported that DPS was more likely to occur in urban community pharmacies and that consumers saved more money when DPS occurred in this environment, but prices for prescriptions dispensed as written were also higher in this environment. Finally, it was found that prescription prices were affected by the type of pharmacy patronized, but were not affected by the urban or rural location of pharmacy.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007087	Illinois	State bounded on the north by Wisconsin, on the east by Lake Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky, on the west by Missouri and Iowa, and on the south by Kentucky.
D007880	Legislation, Drug	Laws concerned with manufacturing, dispensing, and marketing of drugs.	Drug Laws,Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act,Narcotic Laws,Drug Legislation,Drug Law,Law, Drug,Law, Narcotic,Laws, Drug,Laws, Narcotic,Narcotic Law
D010593	Pharmaceutical Services	Total pharmaceutical services provided by qualified PHARMACISTS. In addition to the preparation and distribution of medical products, they may include consultative services provided to agencies and institutions which do not have a qualified pharmacist.	Pharmaceutic Services,Pharmaceutical Care,Pharmacy Services,Services, Pharmaceutic,Services, Pharmaceutical,Services, Pharmacy,Care, Pharmaceutical,Pharmaceutic Service,Pharmaceutical Service,Pharmacy Service,Service, Pharmaceutic,Service, Pharmaceutical,Service, Pharmacy
D011306	Prescription Fees	The charge levied on the consumer for drugs or therapy prescribed under written order of a physician or other health professional.	Dispensing Fees,Fees, Prescription,Dispensing Fee,Fee, Dispensing,Fee, Prescription,Fees, Dispensing,Prescription Fee
D011307	Drug Prescriptions	Directions written for the obtaining and use of DRUGS.	Drug Prescribing,Drug Prescription,Drug Prescribings,Prescribing, Drug,Prescribings, Drug
D005069	Evaluation Studies as Topic	Works about studies that determine the effectiveness or value of processes, personnel, and equipment, or the material on conducting such studies.	Critique,Evaluation Indexes,Evaluation Methodology,Evaluation Report,Evaluation Research,Methodology, Evaluation,Pre-Post Tests,Qualitative Evaluation,Quantitative Evaluation,Theoretical Effectiveness,Use-Effectiveness,Critiques,Effectiveness, Theoretical,Evaluation Methodologies,Evaluation Reports,Evaluation, Qualitative,Evaluation, Quantitative,Evaluations, Qualitative,Evaluations, Quantitative,Indexes, Evaluation,Methodologies, Evaluation,Pre Post Tests,Pre-Post Test,Qualitative Evaluations,Quantitative Evaluations,Report, Evaluation,Reports, Evaluation,Research, Evaluation,Test, Pre-Post,Tests, Pre-Post,Use Effectiveness
D005569	Formularies as Topic	Works about lists of drugs or collections of recipes, formulas, and prescriptions for the compounding of medicinal preparations. Formularies differ from PHARMACOPEIA in that they are less complete, lacking full descriptions of the drugs, their formulations, analytic composition, chemical properties, etc. In hospitals, formularies list all drugs commonly stocked in the hospital pharmacy.
D000704	Analysis of Variance	A statistical technique that isolates and assesses the contributions of categorical independent variables to variation in the mean of a continuous dependent variable.	ANOVA,Analysis, Variance,Variance Analysis,Analyses, Variance,Variance Analyses
D013810	Therapeutic Equivalency	The relative equivalency in the efficacy of different modes of treatment of a disease, most often used to compare the efficacy of different pharmaceuticals to treat a given disease.	Bioequivalence,Clinical Equivalency,Equivalency, Therapeutic,Generic Equivalency,Clinical Equivalencies,Equivalencies, Clinical,Equivalencies, Therapeutic,Equivalency, Clinical,Therapeutic Equivalencies,Bioequivalences,Equivalencies, Generic,Equivalency, Generic,Generic Equivalencies