RATIONAL DRUG USE POLICY IN TURKEY Dedeoglu, Burcak Deniz; Celik, Hatice Demet; Akbulat, Akif; Akar, Halil; Kerman, Saim.
Abstract RATIONAL DRUG USE POLICY IN TURKEY Burcak Deniz Dedeoglu, Hatice Demet Celik, Akif Akbulat, Halil Akar, Saim Kerman Ministry of Health of Turkey, Turkey Studies were conducted by Ministry of Health and many different associations on the issue about “Rational drug use” in Turkey. Institutional activities regarding this issue has been initiated on 12.10.2010 by the Ministry of Health of TURKEY with the establishment of rational drug use department under the the department of pharmacoeconomics. Among the main purposes of the Rational Drug Use Department; generalizing the principles of rational drug use all over the TURKEY and performing campaigns with this aim can be stressed. In order to make suggestions to Social Security Institution (SSI) about the issues of; considering the principles of rational drug use while devoloping the repayment (reimbursement) plans, obtaining the education of the health staff on principles of rational drug use, evaluating the prescriptions according to principles of rational drug use, coordinating the publishment of the national guidelines for diagnosis and treatment and drug guideline periodically and measuring the awareness level of society and health staff about rational drug use. Based on the data taken from SSI, excluding the primary healthcare services, the number of patients applied to a healthcare service and invoices have been sent to SSI in 2008, 2009 and 2010 were 216.930.000, 247.142.000 and 230.112.000 (for first ten months of 2010) respectively, in Turkey. These numbers were classified as “outpatients”, “inpatients”, “others” and “daily” for months. In monthly distrubition perspective, the applications were higher in summer than winter. Total prescription number for workers, civil servants and green card owners in 2009 and 2010 (for first ten months of 2010) were 327.000.000 and 250.138.000 respectively and total prescription invoice number was 16.000 billion TL and 12.259 billion TL. while the average costs per prescription were 48.95 TL. and 49.01 TL, respectively. The expectation is, the rational drug use policy will reduce the total drug cost and increase the awareness of society and health staff about rational drug use.
Introduction Studies were conducted by Ministry of Health and many different associations on the issue about “Rational drug use” in Turkey. Institutional activities regarding this issue has been initiated on 12.10.2010 by the Ministry of Health of Turkey with the establishment of rational drug use department. Among the main purposes of the Rational Drug Use Department; generalizing the principles of rational drug use all over the Turkey and performing campaigns with this aim can be stressed. In order to make suggestions to Social Security Institution (SSI) about the issues of; considering the principles of rational drug use while devoloping the repayment (reimbursement) plans, obtaining the education of the health staff on principles of rational drug use, evaluating the prescriptions according to principles of rational drug use, coordinating the publishment of the national guidelines for diagnosis and treatment and drug guideline periodically and measuring the awareness level of society and health staff about rational drug use.
Objectives Evaluation the current situation about healthcare services and drugs by analaysing the data of SSI and IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. The number of patients applied to a healthcare services and invoice costs; the number of prescription taken from Pharmacy Prevision System and invoice costs; 2010 drug units and costs according to ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical) codes were analaysed.
Results 1 Application Number (x1000) Invoice Cost (x1000 TL) Mean Cost IC/AN (TL) 2008 210.930 13.771.434 63.48 2009 247.142 15.653.143 63.34 2010 277.634 18.488.386 66.59 2011 (first 5 months) 134.969 9.118.785 67.56 Table 1: The number of patients applied to a healthcare service, excluding the primary healthcare services, and invoice costs Ref: SSI Monthly Statistical Bulletin; Publication No:13 P.S.: Data are expanded than the abstract because of the new version of SSI Statistical Bulletin sssssssss
Results 2 Prescription Number (x1000) Invoice Cost (x1000 TL) Mean Cost IC/PN (TL) 2008 302.412 13.046.556 43.14 2009 327.001 16.005.392 48.95 2010 306.461 14.897.455 48.61 2011 (first 5 months) 148.561 6.537.442 44.01 Table 2: The number of prescription taken from Pharmacy Provision System and invoice costs Ref: SSI Monthly Statistical Bulletin; Publication No:13 P.S.: Data are expanded than the abstract because of the new version of SSI Statistical Bulletin
Units Year/10 (Absolute) Results 3 Units Year/10 (Absolute) A0 ALIMENTARY T.& METABOLISM 226.479.339 R0 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 225.593.377 J0 SYSTEMIC ANTI-INFECTIVES 223.775.601 M0 MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYSTEM 215.060.221 N0 NERVOUS SYSTEM 190.285.791 C0 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM 153.493.692 D0 DERMATOLOGICALS 85.449.907 B0 BLOOD + B.FORMING ORGANS 62.125.768 G0 G.U.SYSTEM & SEX HORMONES 54.282.589 S0 SENSORY ORGANS 45.532.429 V0 VARIOUS 38.377.213 H0 SYSTEMIC HORMONES 23.332.437 T0 DIAGNOSTIC AGENTS 8.162.516 K0 HOSPITAL SOLUTIONS 7.818.533 L0 ANTINEOPLAST+IMMUNOMODUL 5.242.349 P0 PARASITOLOGY 5.040.567 Table 3: Drug Units in 2010 acording to ATC code Ref: IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics
Results 4 Table 4: Drug costs in 2010 acording to ATC code TL Year/10 (Absolute) J0 SYSTEMIC ANTI-INFECTIVES 2.215.529.632 A0 ALIMENTARY T.& METABOLISM 2.112.972.993 C0 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM 1.817.350.371 R0 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 1.670.760.391 N0 NERVOUS SYSTEM 1.613.233.082 L0 ANTINEOPLAST+IMMUNOMODUL 1.260.034.408 M0 MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYSTEM 1.142.104.150 G0 G.U.SYSTEM & SEX HORMONES 713.159.010 B0 BLOOD + B.FORMING ORGANS 631.879.716 D0 DERMATOLOGICALS 510.403.595 V0 VARIOUS 333.849.317 S0 SENSORY ORGANS 302.511.660 T0 DIAGNOSTIC AGENTS 230.520.845 H0 SYSTEMIC HORMONES 194.499.452 K0 HOSPITAL SOLUTIONS 29.833.434 P0 PARASITOLOGY 15.592.092 Table 4: Drug costs in 2010 acording to ATC code Ref: IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics
Policy Implications & Conclutions Among the main purposes of the Rational Drug Use Department; generalizing the principles of rational drug use all over the Turkey and performing campaigns with this aim can be stressed. In order to make suggestions to Social Security Institution (SSI) about the issues of; considering the principles of rational drug use while devoloping the repayment (reimbursement) plans, obtaining the education of the health staff on principles of rational drug use, evaluating the prescriptions according to principles of rational drug use, coordinating the publishment of the national guidelines for diagnosis and treatment and drug guideline periodically and measuring the awareness level of society and health staff about rational drug use. The expectation is, the rational drug use policy will reduce the total drug cost and increase the awareness of society and health staff about rational drug use.