The existence of significant disparities between the prescribing costs of dispensing and non‐
dispensing general practices has long been suspected, and received confirmation in a study …

OBJECTIVE--To examine differences in prescribing between dispensing and non-
dispensing practices. SETTING--The 108 practices covered by Lincolnshire Family Health …

Objective: To document the influence of hospital prescribers on prescribing in general
practice. Design and Participants: Five percent of members of the Irish College of General …

Prescriptions issued by 14 general practitioners during December 1974 were examined to
elicit possible determinants of differences in doctors' prescribing costs per registered patient …

OBJECTIVE--To describe the outpatient dispensing policies of major acute hospitals in
England. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire survey in November 1990. SETTING--All (278) …

Objective: To evaluate the prescribing practices of Australian dispensing doctors (DDs) and
to explore their interpretations of the findings. Design, participants and setting: Sequential …

OBJECTIVE--To assess the impact on general practitioners and hospital consultants of
hospital outpatient dispensing policies in England. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire and …

79-82. tones", Robertson and his colleagues (1975) presented a balanced view of
prescribing costs and possible econ¬ omies. National spending on pets, alcohol and …

BACKGROUND: The volume and cost of prescribing varies considerably between practices.
This variation is at least in part due to the prescribing behaviour of individual doctors, who …

OBJECTIVE--To compare general practitioners' prescribing costs in fundholding and non-
fundholding practices before and after implementation of the NHS reforms in April 1991 …