Appropriateness of demand

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A term from medical practice referring to the extent to which particular medications requested by patients are judged to be medically appropriate. The term emerged after the emergence of so-called 'lifestyle drugs' aimed at correcting obesity or penile dysfunction since it was thought they might be demanded inappropriately on a large scale, with consequent serious financial effects on the health services finances. (The fears turned out to be ill-founded in the U.K.) The term can be usefully applied in the analysis of almost any service being evaluated by a program evaluator.