Patent ID: 8112290
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: A61K,A61P,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for delivering a drug to hospital patients for short-term use while minimizing long-term use of the drug, wherein the drug requires compliance with a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which is designed to minimize the occurrence of an observed adverse event; and wherein the method comprises: identifying hospitals that may be eligible to dispense the drug, said eligibility requiring that said hospitals: providing said identified hospitals with literature regarding use of the drug including dosing recommendations and contraindications, and which describes the observation of an adverse event associated with long-term use of the drug; receiving registration information from said identified hospitals; identifying a subpopulation of said identified hospitals which treat the patients and which have said measures in place to limit use of the drug to short-term use; registering said subpopulation in a computer readable storage medium; authorizing said subpopulation to receive shipment of the drug; and dispensing the drug to the patients in said subpopulation for short-term use; monitoring the patients for said observed adverse event.