Background Translating scientific evidence into daily practice is problematic. All kinds of
intervention strategies, using educational and/or directive strategies, aimed at modifying …

Background and objective. Changes in the Dutch GP remuneration system provided the
opportunity to study the effects of changes in financial incentives on the quality of care …

A number of strategies have been shown to improve the quality of drug prescriptions. The
objective of this study was to implement and assess the effectiveness of 3 interventions on …

Background Prescribing is a core activity for general practitioners, yet significant variation in
the quality of prescribing has been reported. This suggests there may be room for …

This study evaluated two different methods of providing practice‐based, antibiotic
prescribing feedback to general practitioners (GPs). The impact of face‐to‐face Prescribing …

Objective: A pay for performance programme was introduced in 2009 by a Swedish county
with 1.6 million inhabitants. A process measure with payment linked to coding for medication …

Objective To evaluate the impact of comparative performance feedback to community
pharmacists on provision of professional services and the quality of patients' medication use …

Bringing information on patterns of existing practice together with information on appropriate
practice is an essential component of efforts to improve health care. In this study …

Objectives:(i) to describe the variation in a number of potential prescribing indicators across
a large number of general practices,(ii) to determine whether particular indicators are …

In the last 20 years, expenditures on pharmaceuticals—as well as total health expenditures—
have grown faster than the gross national product in all European countries. The aim of this …