Twenty-seven general practitioners associated with the Department of Community Health
and General Practice, TCD, agreed to record details of the drugs prescribed on 30 …

Objective—To explore non‐dispensing of National Health Service (NHS) prescriptions in
community pharmacies. Method—Prospective study on prescription items that were …

BACKGROUND: Both the government and the pharmaceutical industry are interested in
increasing the use of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. The reaction on the part of general …

A study was conducted comparing prescription drug utilization by a sample of patients in
similar three-month periods before and after enactment of a Medicaid drug program …

In the Republic of Ireland, the state pays the cost of medical care for around 40 percent of
the population through the General Medical Services (GMS). Doctors treating GMS patients …

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 …

Since 1979, all outpatient pharmacy transactions at the US Public Health Service Hospital in
Seattle have been captured in a computer system which generates a profile of each patient's …

The aim of the study was to see whether the use of a computer to issue prescriptions in
conjunction with a computerised, customized drug formulary affects prescribing costs. Data …