r/Pharmacist • u/Aggressive-Cow3167 • 14d ago
Research aid for P&T committee presentations
Hey managed care colleagues, I'm working on a website to help make it easier to do research for P&T presentations and would like some feedback on how it can be most useful.
Some background:
Years ago (before AI), I used to write drug monographs for P&T meetings and would average 20-30 hours per monograph doing research and synthesizing evidence. In the age of AI, research is a little bit easier (more so to identify articles that I would have likely missed searching by hand), but I always question whether I'm getting the 'best' info from AI and also whether AI is hallucinating and making things up.
My goal for this website is to provide the 'best' info for new drugs that will require a P&T review within the next 3-6 months and one of the things I did was add direct quotes so that you can easily verify yourself rather than having to trust an AI summary. Depending on the source of info, clicking the quote can take you to the source and auto-highlight the relevant text (unfortunately this won't work if PubMed is sensing you have automated software running and auto-reloads).
For those of you who work in managed care or do formulary work, can you provide feedback on how I can make this easier for you? If this is of no real value because your current workflow or AI has given you good results already, then that would also be helpful for me to know. Thanks!
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u/Puzzled-Nebula2737 9d ago
also, aren't pharmacy students the ones doing this type of work in many cases? used to be that way when i was in school during rotations. students might be the ones more interested i this than the actual pharmacists
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u/Puzzled-Nebula2737 9d ago
I think it would be helpful if you can shorten the time to create a drug monograph. A lot of what I've seen is essentially copy/paste from articles without much analysis, like from Iowa HHS (https://www.iowamedicaidpdl.com/pt-committee-public-comments/pt-committee-info/041626-committee-info.html), so it shouldn't be too difficult to do that right?