title: Bringing the DERP to consumers: 'Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs'.
abstract: Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, has used the drug class reviews of the Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) as one critical component of a free public information project on the comparative effectiveness, safety, and cost of prescription drugs. The project translates the DERP findings for consumers. Drawing on other sources and adding information on drug costs, the project chooses Best Buy drugs in each category it evaluates. This guidance can help consumers save up to thousands of dollars per year, and it has the potential to reduce overall drug spending.
authors.affiliation: Consumers Union, Washington, DC, USA. findst@consumer.org
authors.forename: Steven D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Findlay
mesh_terms: D003255:Consumer Organizations; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D017723:Drug Utilization Review / Q000191:economics*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005569:Formularies as Topic; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing