DL: MUE

Question 1

What is MUE?

Answer 1

Authorized, structured, systematic review and evaluation of provider prescribing, pharmacist dispensing, patient use of, and monitoring of med employing standard, observational quality improvement methods

A quality improvement activity. Comparison of the way in which medications are actually used, administered, and monitored with the way the organization’s policies and procedures say they should be used

Question 2

What is the goal of MUE?

Answer 2

Optimal patient outcomes

Question 3

What are the goals of MUE?

Answer 3

1. Ensure that optimum drug therapy outcomes are achieved
2. Continuously improve patient adherence.
3. Reduce inappropriate drug use and related hospitalizations/office visits
4. Decrease adverse effects from drugs and their interactions
   Control Cost

Question 4

MUE = ___ = ___

Answer 4

DUE = DUR
Outcomes assessement

Question 5

What is prospective?

Answer 5

Evaluate pt’s planned drug therapy before dispensing

Ex: assess dose, direction, allergies, posible interactions, or duplicate therapy

Question 6

What is concurrent?

Answer 6

On going monitoring of drug therapy to ensure positive patient outcomes

Question 7

What is retrospective?

Answer 7

review after pt has received treatment: detects patterns in any part of the med use process

Question 8

What are the MUE targets?

Answer 8

1. Medication
2. Med class
3. Disease state
4. Med use process

Question 9

What is the med use process?

Answer 9

1. Acquisition
2. Storage
3. Distribution
4. Prescribing
5. Preparing
6. Dispensing
7. Administering
8. Monitoring
9. Disposal

Question 10

What is criteria?

Answer 10

The policy or procedure being evaluated

Question 11

What is standard?

Answer 11

The performance expectation (Ideally we would have 100% of all cases in compliance with the criteria)

Question 12

What is data collection?

Answer 12

Determine which specific criteria to study and scope

Have IT send you a spreadsheet of raw data of characteristics specified above

Read all relevant pt charts

Question 13

What are the steps MUE?

Answer 13

1. Establish responsibility
2. Develop scope of activities and define objectives
3. Establish criteria for review of the med., policy, etc
4. Data collection
5. Data analysis
6. Feedback to prescribers
7. Make action plan
8. Follow up

Question 14

What is criteria developed?

Answer 14

From literature

Question 15

What do new studies prompt?

Answer 15

An MUE to evaluate our policy

Question 16

What do new guidelines prompt?

Answer 16

An MUE to evaluate our policies, guidelines , order sets