E-drug: Selection files
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As many of you know I have been working with colleagues and a group of
students on a series of review papers for the Rational Pharmaceutical
Management -Plus project.
One of the topic areas is Selection of Essential drugs and as background
work for this review two students, Tulip Schneider and Aziz Jafarov, working
with me have undertaken a review of the WHO Model essential Drug List and
done a comparative analysis of the 2000 WHO list with the EDL's of 13
countries.
I am posting these files on the web to be a resource and also to be
available for the WHO Expert Committee which will be meeting in mid April.
They are large files so you may have a problem downloading them. The URL for
the source page is
http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/richardl/RPM+_Project/selection.htm
I would particularly encourage E-Druggers to look at the file comparing the
WHO 2000 Model EDL with 12 countries. The third column (Column C) counts the
number of countries which the drug on their national EDL. You will see many
drugs are on nearly all the country lists but there are some drugs which are
on very few lists. We have highlight in bold all those which are on less
than four country lists. The question to be asked is if these drugs are not
on national lists should they be on the WHO Model EDL?
The summary file for this information is at
http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/richardl/RPM+_Project/Files/Freq_of_Drugs_on_NEDL’s.xls
[Please take care to copy the whole URL if it wraps around. BS]
If anybody would like to add their National EDL's to the list please do so
and send the revised file to me and I will post it. Please use a different
name.
I hope this information will be useful.
Richard Laing
Associate Professor of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany St, T4W, Boston MA 02118 USA
Tel 617 414-1444 Fax 617 638-4476
E-mail richardl@bu.edu
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