title: Praxis makes perfect?
abstract: Hospital formulary committees blend cost-effectiveness analysis, peer review, and continuing medical education to regulate hospital drug purchases and physicians' prescribing patterns in ways that may be instructive to the societal debate on health care reform.
authors.affiliation: Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fins
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D016527:Drug Costs; D004363:Drug Utilization; D005572:Formularies, Hospital as Topic; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D018024:Peer Review, Health Care; D010606:Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D040841:Resource Allocation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States