744 prescriptions written by a general practitioner are analyzed. It emerges that out of 1759
drugs prescribed, 13.5% are considered to have been directly demanded by the patient …

Between one third and half of all consultations result in a prescription, and general
practitioners are responsible for more than 80 per cent of the use of reimbursed prescription …

The medical prescriptions of 18 house officers working at the Policlinique Universitaire de
Médecine in Geneva were analyzed for a period of 17 working days and provide insight into …

Background In extramural setting, general practitioners serve as gatekeepers and therefore
control the demand for medical treatment and pharmaceuticals. As a result prescription …

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 …

Drug use in Italy in the period 1983–1991 has been analysed. The twenty most used
substances accounted for about 20% of the sold packages. The effect of marketing of new …

Prescription of psychotropic drugs by general practitioners was registered by means of a
multicenter-questionnaire investigation in the County of Arhus. A total of 227 doctors …

Ten general practitioners described how they had examined their own prescribing, and what
they had learnt, at a one-day conference organised by the Royal College of General …

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 …

Prescriptions of 75 patients admitted in Internal Medicine ward of a private teaching hospital
were studied to find out the pattern of drug utilisation. The number of drugs per patient was …