Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data
Medicines are essential for the treatment of acute, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The World Health Organization developed a toolkit for drug (medicine) utilization studies to assist in reviewing and evaluating the prescribing, dispensing, and use of medicines. There is a growing need...
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| description | Medicines are essential for the treatment of acute, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The World Health Organization developed a toolkit for drug (medicine) utilization studies to assist in reviewing and evaluating the prescribing, dispensing, and use of medicines. There is a growing need for rigorous studies of medicine use in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) using standard approaches, especially in the context of universal health coverage. This commentary provides a succinct summary of how to use the WHO anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC)/defined daily dose (DDD) methodology in pharmacoepidemiological studies, with a focus on LMIC contexts. We drew on information from WHO resources and published literature, citing examples and case studies. We encourage readers to publish their drug utilization studies, although we caution about predatory journals. We recommend the use of the RECORD-PE initiative which focuses on methods for doing pharmacoepidemiological research and evaluating the quality of published papers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f23d0e3b44d46f39bbfbbdcd7d82f882023-11-21T10:50:04ZengMDPI AGPharmacy2226-47872021-03-01916010.3390/pharmacy9010060Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World DataSamantha Hollingworth0Therése Kairuz1School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, QLD 4102, AustraliaSchool of Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaMedicines are essential for the treatment of acute, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The World Health Organization developed a toolkit for drug (medicine) utilization studies to assist in reviewing and evaluating the prescribing, dispensing, and use of medicines. There is a growing need for rigorous studies of medicine use in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) using standard approaches, especially in the context of universal health coverage. This commentary provides a succinct summary of how to use the WHO anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC)/defined daily dose (DDD) methodology in pharmacoepidemiological studies, with a focus on LMIC contexts. We drew on information from WHO resources and published literature, citing examples and case studies. We encourage readers to publish their drug utilization studies, although we caution about predatory journals. We recommend the use of the RECORD-PE initiative which focuses on methods for doing pharmacoepidemiological research and evaluating the quality of published papers.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/9/1/60medicinespharmacoepidemiologyATCDDDdrug utilization |
| spellingShingle | Samantha Hollingworth Therése Kairuz Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data Pharmacy medicines pharmacoepidemiology ATC DDD drug utilization |
| title | Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data |
| title_full | Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data |
| title_fullStr | Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data |
| title_short | Measuring Medicine Use: Applying ATC/DDD Methodology to Real-World Data |
| title_sort | measuring medicine use applying atc ddd methodology to real world data |
| topic | medicines pharmacoepidemiology ATC DDD drug utilization |
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