Drug Utilization Research: Methods and Applications

Drug Utilization Research (DUR) is an eclectic scientific discipline, integrating descriptive and analytical methods for the quantification, understanding and evaluation of the processes of prescribing, dispensing and consumption of medicines and for the testing of interventions to enhance the quality of these processes. The discipline is closely related and linked mainly to the broader field of pharmacoepidemiology, but also to health outcomes research, pharmacovigilance and health economics.

Drug Utilization Research is a unique, practical guide to the assessment and evaluation of prescribing practices and to interventions to improve the use of medicines in populations. Edited by an international expert team from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), DUR is the only title to cover both the methodology and applications of drug utilization research and covers areas such as health policy, specific populations, therapeutics and adherence.

Monique Elseviers, Centre for Research and Innovation in Care, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Björn Wettermark, Associate Professor in Pharmacoepidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Morten Andersen, Visiting Professor, Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Senior Physician at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Senior Researcher at the Research Unit for General Practice, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Ria Benko, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

Marion Bennie, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Strathclyde, UK; Chief Pharmaceutical Adviser, NHS National Services Scotland, UK.

Brian Godman, Research Scientist, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Janet Krska, Professor of Clinical and Professional Pharmacy, Medway School of Pharmacy, Universities of Greenwich and Kent, UK.

Elisabetta Poluzzi, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.

Katja Taxis, Associate Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Clinical Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Vera Vlahovic-Palcevski, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Rijeka Medical School, Croatia; Specialist in Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Rijeka, Croatia.

Robert Vander Stichele, practicing family physician in Ghent, Belgium.