Effective decision-making in a changing healthcare environment: a P & T Committee interview.
In this exclusive Hospital Formulary interview, members of the Virginia Mason Medical Center discuss the challenges of a P & T Committee operating in a private, not-for-profit hospital. In order to accommodate the increasing volume of therapeutic issues, the Committee has successfully structured six subcommittees. Establishing a flexible and dynamic formulary has been critical, since drug therapy settings include hospitalized, ambulatory, and HMO patients. In addition to developing effective therapeutic interchange and drug usage guideline policies, the P & T Committee has been instrumental in organizing a successful home healthcare program. They outline their priorities for further strengthening their formulary system in an everchanging healthcare environment.
D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000592:standards; D005572:Formularies, Hospital as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010606:Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011050:Policy Making; D014861:Washington