A household survey investigated the nonprescribed medicine use of 3,481 persons in the
Baltimore SMSA in 1968-69. Of respondents, 30 per cent used a nonprescribed morbidity …

Objectives: To describe a simple method for assessing the quality of drug prescribing.
Methods: We tested the idea that the number of drugs accounting for 90% of drug use–drug …

Objective-To present the prescribing patterns of general practitioners (GPs) at public primary
care centres (PPCCs) in Halland, a county in the south-west of Sweden. GP share of the …

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 explore the relevance of prescription changes and related drug costs when
patients are referred from primary to secondary care. Patients and methods: Secondary …

Research and practice indicate that a substantial amount of drugs prescribed for patients are
never used. However, we do not know much as to why around 10% of the drugs paid for by …

Many studies of drug utilization have suffered from the absence of information on the
indications for therapy. A few data sets on drug utilization are available which include …

We have examined the prescribing patterns among general practitioners (GPs) in a
Norwegian county in relation to the patients' age and sex and the diagnosis for prescribing …

Methods Questionnaire survey of patients of general practitioners before and after
consultation. The survey was conducted separately for Turkish and German patients …

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