Non-prescription medicines are receiving more attention because they offer a means of
containing healthcare costs. On the one hand, the number of drugs available on prescription …

In the summer of 1982 the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum held a meeting on'Disparities in
European Medicine'. The aim was to compare and contrast the various aspects of health and …

The prescribing of medicines is an integral part of the provision of healthcare and represents
a relatively safe, effective and inexpensive mode of treatment. Hospital prescribing is of …

Physicians' drug prescribing habits are not adequate. This paper gives examples from
Finland suggesting that information given by drug industry is likely to create and reinforce …

The widespread use of many new and powerful drugs and the increasing recognition of
adverse effects has stimulated interest in the manner in which physicians prescribe drugs …

All Swedish citizens (8.3 million inhabitants) belong to the National Health Service system.
In 1954 the Swedish Parliament decided that certain drugs should be free of cost when …

To achieve a safer future prescribing, the Swedish government has introduced a mandatory
registration of all drugs dispensed at pharmacies. The medication history in the register may …

There is a large excess in prescribing costs by GPs in Wales compared with England. This
excess amounts to about 30%, equivalent at present to over pounds 11 ma year. The pattern …

BACKGROUND: In a part of Oslo, Norway, the community care services use multi-dose
packed medicines for some of their clients. We wanted to investigate whether this improved …

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 …