BACKGROUND: The volume and cost of prescribing varies considerably between practices.
This variation is at least in part due to the prescribing behaviour of individual doctors, who …

Background In an attempt to curb the rapidly rising costs of primary care prescribing in
Ireland, the government introduced a financial incentive scheme in 1993, to encourage …

Objective: To document the influence of hospital prescribers on prescribing in general
practice. Design and Participants: Five percent of members of the Irish College of General …

BACKGROUND: In a previous study we found that a minority of general practitioners (GPs)
had different views to health authority advisers on a number of prescribing cost issues …

Objectives: Prescribing costs have risen significantly over the past decade and this has led
to increasing pressure on general practitioners (GPs) to control their prescribing budgets …

OBJECTIVE--To assess the impact on general practitioners and hospital consultants of
hospital outpatient dispensing policies in England. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire and …

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 …

BACKGROUND: In 1994, an Audit Commission report estimated that Pounds 425 million
could be saved from the national drug budget if general practitioners (GPs) altered their …

Although there is evidence that collaboration between doctors and pharmacists results in the
more cost-effective use of medicines, the input of pharmacists into the prescribing process …

OBJECTIVE--To examine differences in prescribing between dispensing and non-
dispensing practices. SETTING--The 108 practices covered by Lincolnshire Family Health …