In response to rising healthcare costs, healthcare payers across the globe have been
experimenting with performance-based payment models that link payments to providers with …

Purpose To analyse strengths and weaknesses of a simple method for assessing the
general quality of drug prescribing and to study the acceptance of the method among …

Background In an attempt to curb the rapidly rising costs of primary care prescribing in
Ireland, the government introduced a financial incentive scheme in 1993, to encourage …

Background Physician prescribing is the most frequent medical intervention with a highest
impact on healthcare costs and outcomes. Therefore improving and promoting rational drug …

This article discusses how prescription data that are available from pharmacies can be used
as a tool to support the improvement of prescribing behaviour. For the optimal use of …

Background: Pharmaceutical care (PC) services are increasingly provided in community
pharmacies in the western world. Evaluations are often conducted as trials in highly …

Background: Valuable evaluations of the quality of drug prescribing in routine health care
are difficult to perform. It is even more difficult to study prescribing in a non-gatekeeping …

The use of multiple drugs by patients increases the risk of medical problems. Clinical
decision support could assist general practitioners with prescribing but is underused. This …

Rationale and objectives It is difficult to keep control over prescribing behaviour in general
practice. The purpose of this study was to assess the initial effects of a behaviour …

Of all the activities that take place in general practice, prescribing has the greatest potential
to produce health benefits or to cause harm. Therefore, indicators of appropriateness of …