National Medicines
Use Survey
The National Medicines Use Survey (NMUS) is
a service initiated and supported by the
Ministry of Health (MOH) to collect
information on the supply, procurement,
prescription, dispensing and use of drugs in
Malaysia.
Malaysian Statistics On Medicines 2005
Published!!
The data of National Medicine Use Survey is
published in our annual report: Malaysian
Statistics On Medicines.
In this publication, you will find drug
utilization patterns of public and private
sectors, with comments written by experts of
the field. Using the *WHO **ATC/DDD
methodology, which is an international
classification system for drug utilization
research, this enable the Malaysian data to
be compared with similar reports from other
countries. Interested to take a look? Click here for
full report.
*World Health Organization
**ATC: Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical
Classification; DDD: Defined Daily Dose
We
anticipate more and better reports in future
on utilization trends over time, coverage of
more therapeutic areas than in the first
report, detailed analysis on pattern of use
in particular important therapeutic areas
such as cancer, more estimates on
pharmaceutical expenditure, and so on.
For
all these to happen, the NMUS looks forward
to the continuing participation of hospitals
and clinics that allow access to their data,
as well as the doctors and pharmacists who
participated in the medicines prescription
and dispensing surveys. Without these data,
there can be no report.
What are the
benefits of participating in NMUS?
Apart from doing your bit for your
community, here are some other benefits to
being a participant:
Invitation to all
functions organized by the NMUS
Invitation to
scientific meetings on aspects of the
quality use of medicines organized by
NMUS with registration fees waived
Acknowledgement
in all publications of the NMUS
Personal copy of
all NMUS publications free of charge
Free access to all
reports and other information published
by NMUS in its website
Free listing in
the “The Malaysian Medical & Health
Directory” or “Medicines Information
Project” where applicable.
Free listing in
the NMUS’s web site
Participate in
further research on drug utilisation to
investigate the hypotheses generated by
NMUS data
Tap into a network
of like-minded people from diverse
professional disciplines and backgrounds
Are you part of
NMUS?
The NMUS is no doubt
one of the most important initiative in the
Malaysian
pharmaceutical sector.
All are welcome to join NMUS in any
capacity, whether as
Source Data Provider,
Expert Panel
member, Board
member, Drug Utilization researcher, or even
work part or full time in the highly
stressed NMUS project team.
Medicines
Prescription and Dispensing Survey Data
Reporting is Easy
Only
1 week’s of
prescription or dispensing data required
of each participating medical or
pharmacy practiceper
year.
For each day of
survey, just submit a list of all
medicines prescribed or dispensed at
your practice, together with data on
patient’s age and sex, medicines name,
treatment dose, duration and
indication(s).
For practice with
information system, reporting is as
simple as emailing us your
data!!!
For practice
without such system, the NMUS will
provide a website for this purpose if
you like.
Only
1 week’s of
prescription or dispensing data required
of each participating medical or
pharmacy practice per
year.
