1993
DOI: 10.1177/106002809302701224
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Potential Savings of Consulting a Drug Information Center

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“…This finding does of course support the importance of a health care facility like the DIC, in providing condensed and evaluated literature information, supporting the treatment of individual patients. It has previously been shown that the DIC has a cost-saving potential in preventing ADRs [15]. The present finding also indicates the need, for example, of local or regional pediatric therapeutic expert groups to regularly survey the literature and distribute relevant new data and findings to all pediatric prescribers.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
“…This finding does of course support the importance of a health care facility like the DIC, in providing condensed and evaluated literature information, supporting the treatment of individual patients. It has previously been shown that the DIC has a cost-saving potential in preventing ADRs [15]. The present finding also indicates the need, for example, of local or regional pediatric therapeutic expert groups to regularly survey the literature and distribute relevant new data and findings to all pediatric prescribers.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
“…Cost-effective analyses of POD are methodologically difficult as the output is complex, covering a wide range of diseases, adverse reactions and patient circumstances, and there are difficulties in converting change in health into financial value [17]. The evidence of the economic impact is therefore limited and has only been evaluated in two studies [28,29]. The methodologically best performed study investigated the economic impact of patient-specific answers over a 6-week period in 1999.…”
Section: Sources Searched Before Inquiringmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The calculation of workforce demand is required including the analysis of clinical activities with entire organizations or throughout outsource institutions Several studies have focused their research on cost avoidance of drug information services. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] However, to the best of our knowledge, studies regarding the personal workforce and clinical activities are scarce around the world and in the Middle East countries including Saudi Arabia. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to explore the workload of drug information centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%