The difference between prescribed and dispensed medicines in Sweden has been
determined for the 20 most common diagnoses for all outpatients. For all diagnoses …

Aims To describe differences between general practice prescribed and dispensed
medications in terms of patient characteristics and category of drug. Methods Computerised …

The pattern of drug usage as obtained from a continuous recording of prescriptions in the
county of Jämtland, Sweden, is described. Of 16600 persons monitored, about 60 …

In many countries, including The Netherlands, little is known about the overall prescribing
patterns within hospitals. While individual hospitals have some data available, these are not …

Summary Prescribed drugs dispensed to 13%(17 000) of the inhabitants in the county of
Jämtland, Sweden, have been continuously recorded since 1970. Individual patients in the …

Drug prescribing in Sweden under the National Insurance Act has been continuously
recorded since 1974. A random sample of 1 in 288 is drawn from the about 24 million …

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

Objectives-To investigate the number of different drugs prescribed per dispensing unit and
to analyse the influence of practice characteristics on this number. Design-Register analysis …

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 …

Background: In southern Sweden, many general practitioners (GPs) participate in an
extensive postgraduate drug education programme, and many health centres are also fed …