Background In extramural setting, general practitioners serve as gatekeepers and therefore
control the demand for medical treatment and pharmaceuticals. As a result prescription …

Since their introduction in 1993, the structure of physician drug budgets in Germany has
changed frequently. Although highly disputed, they have limited the pharmaceutical …

In 1992 the German Federal Minister of Health enacted a new law to secure the health
insurance system by budgeting the expenses for prescriptions among else. The data derived …

744 prescriptions written by a general practitioner are analyzed. It emerges that out of 1759
drugs prescribed, 13.5% are considered to have been directly demanded by the patient …

Background: Equitable access to health care is a goal subscribed to in many European
economies. But while a growing body of literature studies socioeconomic inequalities in …

Objectives To determine patients' needs and expectations for prescriptions as a function of
demographic and illness‐associated variables versus outcome of consultation. Design …

We have examined the prescribing patterns among general practitioners (GPs) in a
Norwegian county in relation to the patients' age and sex and the diagnosis for prescribing …

Between one third and half of all consultations result in a prescription, and general
practitioners are responsible for more than 80 per cent of the use of reimbursed prescription …

To contain pharmaceutical spending, drug budgets have been introduced across health
systems. Apart from analyzing whether drug budgets fulfill their overall goal of reducing …

The second Dutch National Survey of General Practice (DNSGP-2) has combined
registration data on morbidity and prescription, making it possible to unravel diagnosis …