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 …

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 …

Summary Prescribed drugs dispensed to 13%(17 000) of the inhabitants in the county of
Jämtland, Sweden, have been continuously recorded since 1970. Individual patients in the …

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 …

Based on sales statistics, prescription habits and figures, interviews, and, in certain
instances, on determinations of drug plasma levels, various aspects of drug usage in …

Prescribed doses of drugs for which individualisation of dosage is deemed necessary were
recorded from one national and one local Swedish prescription monitoring study for the …

On 1 February 1983 a patient charge was introduced for prescription drugs for persons
insured under the Dutch Sickness Funds Insurance Act. The charge consisted of a co …

The extensive computerisation of Danish pharmacies has permitted the establishment of two
large prescription registries: The Odense University Pharmacoepidemiological Database …

The available sources of information on drug utilization in the Swedish population at large
are reviewed. They comprise whole‐sale statistics, drug deliveries to hospitals and …

Background: In southern Sweden, many general practitioners (GPs) participate in an
extensive postgraduate drug education programme, and many health centres are also fed …