BACKGROUND: In New Zealand there is increasing interest in the variation in the
prescribing behaviours of general practitioners (GPs). Research conducted to date …

IN 1983, the Royal College of General Practitioners produced its Quality of Care Initiative
and identified prescribing in general practice as a particular area needing attention. After …

Analyses are reported of the prescribing quality and behaviour of 131 doctors' practices in a
South Wales health authority during the first quarter of 1997. Prescribing of specific groups …

Hospital drug formularies provide local guidelines on using the principal drugs and are
developed after discussion with senior staff. A secondary aim is to contain costs. Thebest …

To detect the differences in patterns of prescribing between general practitioners with high
and low costs, the costs in prescribing seven symptomatic and seven systematic drug …

The authors review the issue of physician dispensing for profit from the viewpoint of both the
physician and the pharmacist and report a random survey to learn about the patient's …

Background If all GPs target their prescribing appropriately, then a positive relationship may
be expected between targeting quality indicators and associated prescribing expenditure …

THE prescription scripts written by general practitioners in Northern Ireland are sent every
month by pharmacists to the Pricing Bureau in Belfast so that pharmacists may be paid for …

A study of the amount of drug advertisements received by general practitioners and the
amount of the drugs practitioners prescribed showed a strong correlation of 0· 80. Analysis …

Summary In The Netherlands, the government operates a reference price system in which
medicines are categorised into groups of interchangeable drugs. The reimbursement within …