Clinical Review
Evaluating Prescribing Patterns of Blood Glucose Test Strips
Fed Pract. 2008 October;25(10):27
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Majid R. Tanas, PharmD, MS, C.J. Bradetich, PharmD, and Sunil Wadhwani, PharmD, MS
At the time of this writing, Dr. Tanas was a pharmacy doctoral student at Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Pullman. He is now a health-system pharmacy administration resident at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Bradetich is a clinical pharmacy specialist and Dr. Wadhwani is the chief of pharmacy, both at the Spokane VA Medical Center, Spokane, WA.
Recognizing an opportunity for potenial cost savings, these authors evaluated whether blood glucose test strips were being prescribed appropriately at their VA medical center.