Drug utilization.
Understanding how drugs/medicines are initiated and utilized in a real-world clinical setting is important, especially following newly updated guidelines and the introduction of novel and paradigm changing treatment alternatives.
Treatment initiation
Real-world clinical initiation of guideline directed/recommended medical treatment in patients with a newly detected condition, e.g. clinical treatment inertia in incident chronic kidney disease.
Discontinuation and dose usage
Describe how guideline directed/recommended medical treatment is utilized once initiated, before and after introduction of approved novel treatment alternatives for e.g., heart failure or chronic kidney disease.
In conditions with several guideline directed/recommended medical treatments, understanding the number of recommended drug classes used and initiated when treating a condition, e.g. heart failure.
