Drug Utilization Review Program

Intervention Outcomes & Topics

• SYF 2012 Program Assessment
• History of Drug Abuse (March 2012)
• Appropriate Narcotic Utilization (March 2012)
• Appropriate ADHD Treatment (March 2012)
• Psychotropics in Children and Adolescents (March 2012)
• Increased Risk of Serotonin Syndrome (March 2012)
• SFY 2011 Intervention Outcomes Report
• SYF 2011 Program Assessment
• SYF 2010 Program Assessment
• SFY 2010 Intervention Outcomes Report
• SFY 2009 Program Assessment
• Diabetes Mellitus Disease Management (July 2009)  
• Heart Failure (July 2009)  
• Gastrointestinal Medications (July 2009)  
• Hypertension Management (July 2009)  
• Hyperlipidemia (August 2008)  
• Migraine (August 2008)  
• Hormone Replacement Therapy (April 2008)  
• NSAID: Drug Use Evaluation (April 2006)  
• Falls in the Elderly (February 2006) 
• Hyperlipidemia (December 2004)

Health Information Designs (HID) produces five Population-Based Interventions on behalf of the Kansas Medical Assistance Program per year. These interventions are selected by the DUR Board and use comprehensive criteria to identify specific disease state or drug usage issues that affect large populations of patients. A high-impact educational intervention packet is sent to prescribing physicians alerting them of the potential issue, the patients that are affected, and the remedial action that is suggested to improve the quality of care. Since all the physician's patients with the issue are referenced in the intervention letter, a "multiplier effect" is created by impelling change in a large number of patients with a singe communication. The two types of population-based interventions utilized by the Kansas Medical Assistance Program are:

a. Drug use evaluation: Drug usage evaluation interventions will target specific drugs and drug categories where pharmacotherapy is often inappropriate, cost-ineffective, potentially harmful, or of limited clinical benefit.

b. Disease management: Disease management interventions will target specific disease states with significant opportunities for improving client care.

Available here is a listing of Intervention Topics and additional information.