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 …

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

The cost of the pharmaceutical services is a small fraction of total expenditure involved in the
processes of caring, yet because it is easily identifiable it has been subjected to much …

Every resident of Britain may call, as part of the National Health Service, upon the services of
a general medical practitioner. Prescriptions issued by general practitioners are dispensed …

INTRODUCTION Prescribing has many aspects, and most of them are criticized. The
increasing size of the national drug bill is discussed in Parliament, on television and in the …

IN the past, research into general practitioners' prescribing has consisted of a variety of
descriptive studies, attempts to identify factors that influence prescribing behaviour, audit of …

Every resident of Britain may call, as part of the National Health Service, upon the services of
a general medical practitioner. Prescriptions issued by general practitioners are dispensed …

A drug formulary comprising 249 preparations of 132 drugs and drug combinations was
prepared by the partners in a three-doctor general practice serving more than 5000 patients …

This paper discusses drawing up a restricted list of 245 drugs for use in an inner London
group practice, based on a review of prescribing patterns in November 1982. The likely …

The standardised report of the Prescription Pricing Authority, which is concerned with the
prescribing characteristics of practices, was used as an epidemiological tool to evaluate the …