Many healthcare systems prohibit primary care physicians from dispensing the drugs they
prescribe due to concerns that this encourages excessive, ineffective or unnecessarily costly …

General practice prescribing costs have risen rapidly in recent years, and there are wide
variations between practices in rates and costs of prescribing. Setting general practice …

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 …

Objetivo: Identificar, mediante análisis de regresión múltiple, las variables de influencia en
el tiempo de acceso a atención especializada (listas de espera), y analizar las zonas de …

Background: Two separate prescribing budget regimes (part of GP fundholding and the
indicative prescribing scheme) were introduced into UK general practice in April 1991 in an …

Objectives: The managerial requirements of budget-setting and performance monitoring in
general practice (primary care) in the UK require an understanding of the causal relationship …

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 …

Aims To assess the cost implications of changing prescribing patterns for antihypertensive
drugs and to analyse adherence to guidelines and formulary in Grampian region over a 1 …

General practice prescribing costs have risen rapidly in recent years, and there are wide
variations between practices in rates and costs of prescribing. Setting general practice …

Fundamento: La medida continuada de la calidad de la prescripción farmacéutica forma
parte de los programas de mejora de calidad de procesos asistenciales sanitarios en …