Background Because not all medicines are equally safe, effective, and affordable, health
systems often use formularies to define explicitly which medicines will be included and …

Objective To present a brief synopsis of trends in the number of prescriptions and retail costs
of outpatient drugs dispensed in the US between 1998 and 2003. Methods Data were …

Objective All health care systems in the world struggle with rising costs for drugs. We sought
to explore factors impacting on prescribing costs in a nationwide database of ambulatory …

Recent years have seen an increase in the number of dispensing physicians in the UK.
There have also been suggestions that legislation restricting certain drugs to prescription …

The challenges of polypharmacy and inappropriate prescribing are recognized
internationally. This study synthesizes and compares the policies related to these issues …

This study used publicly available data to examine the effect of the separation of dispensing
and prescribing medicines between pharmacists in pharmacies and doctors in medical …

Objectives: Iceland was the first Nordic country to liberalise its drug distribution system, in
March 1996. Subsequent regulation in January 1997 increased patients' share of drug costs …

According to data from the most recent edition of the Canadian Rx Atlas, Quebec was the
province with the highest total spending per capita on prescription drugs. The difference …

Purpose To quantify prescription drug price increases over a span of 3 years (2012-2015),
as well as extrapolate current reimbursement rates expected by independent retail …

OBJECTIVE: To assess effects of abolition of prescription copayments in Wales on rates of
dispensing. METHODS: General practice-level monthly dispensing data were compared …