[Monitoring utilization of hypolipemic agents using an insurance company database].

Databases of health insurance companies can provide information on the motion of a drug in the society. The present paper examines several databases of health insurance companies and analyzes the development of the consumption of hypolipidemic agents in 1994 through 1998. So-called evaluation databases making it impossible to identify a particular patient and the prescribing physician were prepared for the evaluation.

[Evaluation of drug utilization from positive lists].

Background: The introduction of positive drug lists (positive lists) is part of the regulating mechanisms which try to reduce the increasing expenditure on drugs. An essential part of these provisions is at present an analysis of the trend of drug consumption. The objective of the work was to introduce and evaluate the method DU 90% which in analyses of drug consumption uses a 90% ratio of preparations of their total consumption.

Comparison of drug utilization of most commonly used drugs in Poland and Czech Republic.

Utilization of drugs from the following groups: antibacterial, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and respiratory tract diseases in Poland and Czech Republic was analyzed. The most commonly sold drugs were among antibacterial drugs, viz., doxycycline (4.

Changes in the use of antibacterial drugs in the countries of central and eastern Europe.

Use of systemic antibacterial drugs in the countries of central and eastern Europe (CCEE) has been studied using the defined daily doses (DDD) methodology. For the comparison, national wholesale data from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania for the years 1989 and 1992 were used, i.e.