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cord-004227-lp63i56o	Sofat, Reecha	Drug and therapeutics committees as guardians of safe and rational medicines use	2019-10-18		.txt	text/plain	1356	67	49	Now NICE has been established for 20 years, the committee has been largely relieved of the burden of making complex assessments of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of newly licensed drugs; regional medicines optimization committees may also remove some of the decisions from local committees. However, there are continued and evolving challenges to ensuring the safe, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines within a single health care facility, and the drug and therapeutics committee needs to continue and to evolve to meet them. As a result, they commonly participate in committees responsible for overseeing the use of medicines in health care organizations, often called drugs and therapeutics committees (DTCs) in the United Kingdom and pharmacy and therapeutics committees in the United States. It introduces a BJCP series called "Drugs and Therapeutics Committees" to allow clinical pharmacologists and those participating in DTCs to share data and practices on how best to contribute to DTCs and to adapt to the changing landscape.	./cache/cord-004227-lp63i56o.txt	./txt/cord-004227-lp63i56o.txt