Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Doctor shopping is defined as seeing multiple treatment providers, either during a single
illness episode or to procure prescription medications illicitly. According to the available …

Background Prescription monitoring programs scrutinize the prescribing of controlled
substances to diminish the utilization of multiple prescribers (aka.“doctor shopping”). The …

Free choice of health care providers is aimed to improve the quality of health care by
increasing both access to it and the competition between providers. However, it may also …

Background Obtaining analgesic narcotics from multiple prescribers is sometimes called
'doctor-shopping,'implying abuse. If the use of multiple prescribers can be used as an …

High drug related mortality has been registered in Norway. Although comparison between
countries relies on a standard international coding system of diseases, different practices in …

International and national guideline documents have been published by their respective
health care agencies detailing the conduct of preclinical screening of new chemical entities …

Les médicaments du système nerveux central constituent, en terme de surveillance, un
groupe unique de produits car ils peuvent être mésusés, détournés ou consommés dans le …

The questions asked in this thesis relate to the economic incentives and characteristics of
the health care market, which may result in suboptimal drug prescription. We consider two …

Methodik: Für die empirischen Analysen wurde eine pseudonymisierte Datenbank aller
Arzneimittelverschreibungen in Österreich (2007–2012) verwendet mit eingelösten …