• Part One: Information on hospital • Generic name of the basic drug, dosage

policies and procedures concerning drugs forms, strength, packaging and size stocked

• Part Two: Drug products listing by pharmacy, formulation

• Part Three: Special information - 2 indexes which can be included:

• Generic name of drug items
PART I
• Therapeutic/Pharmacologic index
1. Categories of drugs
- Evaluated and approved drug categories:
PART III

• Formulary drug - List of Hospitals -> approved abbreviations

• Conditional trial period - Rules for calculating pediatric dosages

• Investigational drugs - Table of sodium content of antacids

• Specialized formulary drugs - List of the contents of emergency cart

- Nonformulary drug - Dosage guides for patient with renal

2. Brief description of the PTC, including its failure

membership, responsibilities and operation. - Metric conversion scales and tables

3. Hospital policies governing: - Examples of formulary request/deletion

• Prescribing form

• Dispensing - Tables of drug interactions

• Administration - Poison antidote charts

• Company/suppliers, representatives
• Standard drug administration times Typical Format and Appearance of a

• Reporting of ADR and medication errors Formulary

PART II - Physically, formulary must be

- It is the heart of the formulary. • Visually pleasing

- Entries can be arranged in several ways: • Understandable

• Alphabetically, by generic name • Appear professional

• Alphabetically, within therapeutic class - The need for proper grammar, punctuation

• Combination of two correct spelling and neatness is obvious

- Information to be included in each entry: - Composition:

1. Title page
2. Names and titles of the members of the
PTC
3. Table of Contents
4. Information on hospital policies and
procedures
• Objectives and operation of the formulary
system
• Hospital regulations and procedures for
prescribing and dispensing of drugs
• Hospital pharmacy services and
Keeping the Formulary Current
- Formulary need to be revised annually
(addition, deletion, changes in policies will
necessitate revision).
- Sheet can be attached to the current
edition for any changes.
ABBREVIATIONS
PNDF - Philippine National Drug

procedures Formulary
• Directions on how to use the formulary NDC - National Drug Code
5. Products accepted for use at the hospital
PTC - Pharmacy and therapeutics
• Items added, deleted and requested for
committee
inclusion to PNDF consistent with the
revision made by the NDC
• Pharmacologic/Therapeutic index
• Description of formulary drug products by
pharmacologic/therapeutic class
6. Appendix
• Rules for calculating pediatric doses
• Schedule of standard drug administration
times
• Forms for addition to/deletion from
formulary and other important forms