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Rapporto ISTISAN 20/2 - Pharmaceutical prescription in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (Italy). Analysis of the data of 2018. Roberto Da Cas, Alfred König, Verena Moser, Giuseppe Traversa
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Pharmaceutical prescription in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (Italy). Analysis of the data of 2018.
Roberto Da Cas, Alfred König, Verena Moser, Giuseppe Traversa
2020, ii, 114 p. Rapporti ISTISAN 20/2 (in Italian)
The report analyses the prescription of drugs within the Autonomous Province of Bolzano in 2018. The total pharmaceutical expenditure amounted to 204 million euros, of which 76% covered by the National Health Service (NHS), whereas the remaining proportion is out-of-pocket. The expenditure for outpatients’ prescription slightly decreased (-1.6%) in comparison with 2017 (similarly to the Italian trend), whereas the in-hospital expenditure increased by 8.7%. Cardiovascular drugs were the most prescribed therapeutic category; drugs for dementia, for multiple sclerosis, antidepressants and immunosuppressants are the categories with higher levels of use in the Province in comparison with the national level. Around 55% of the expenditure, and 67% of the doses are prescribed to the population older than 65 years. More than 80% of the doses prescribed in 2018 are relevant to off-patent drugs.
Key words: Pharmaceutical expenditure; Pharmacoepidemiology; Drug utilization studies; Monitoring system
Published 04/12/2020
