Contribution of community pharmacists to policy decisions for drug cost containment in Swiss nursing homes

• In: Community Pharmacy - Collaboration with health care professionals Posters
• At: Lisbon (Portugal) (2010)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: CPS5-P-005
• By: MAURI-HELLWEG, Daniela (Ambulatory Care Community Medecine Departement, Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Co-author(s): Zeukeng, Minette-Joëlle (Community Pharmacy Practice Research Unit, LAUSANNE & GENEVA, Switzerland)
  Locca, Jean-François (Community Pharmacy Practice Research Unit, LAUSANNE, Switzerland)
  Beffa, Ferdinand (Medical Association of the Canton of Vaud, LAUSANNE, Switzerland)
  Rossier, Christophe (Pharmacists Association of the Canton of Vaud, LAUSANNE, Switzerland)
  Fontannaz, Anne-Sylvie (Office of Public Health of the Canton of Vaud, LAUSANNE, Switzerland)
  Fauquex, Karen (Community Pharmacy Practice Research Unit, LAUSANNE, Switzerland)
  Bugnon, Olivier (Community Pharmacy Practice Research Unit, LAUSANNE, Switzerland)
  
• Abstract:

  In Switzerland as in other countries, Nursing Homes (NH) are getting a strong medical orientation and are therefore facing increasing issues with drug safety and drug costs. Replying to a Legislative Council member of the canton of Vaud (VD), the Health Minister mandated a project to elaborate a model for drug costs containment in NH of VD by a

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