ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1996
Lessons from international experience in controlling pharmaceutical expenditure. II: Influencing doctors.
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- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of financial incentives for prescribers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- International experience in controlling pharmaceutical expenditure: influencing patients and providers and regulating industry - a systematic review.Journal of health services research & policy · 2015Pooled it
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- Relationship between the number of hospital pharmacists and hospital pharmaceutical expenditure: a macro-level panel data model of fixed effects with individual and time.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Relationship Between the Provision of Injection Services in Ambulatory Physician Offices and Prescribing Injectable Medicines.Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research : IJPR · 2017Article
- Evaluating patients' perceptions regarding generic medicines in Jordan.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2013Article
- Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of audit and feedback on physician's prescribing indicators: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial with economic evaluation.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2012Article
- It is a good time to expand your circle!Anesthesia and analgesia · 2011Article
- Impact of pharmaceutical promotion on prescribing decisions of general practitioners in Eastern Turkey.BMC public health · 2007Article
- [Could hiring more locums be a tool to have more rational drug prescriptions?].Atencion primaria · 2006Article
- Pharmacy utilization and the Medicare Modernization Act.The Milbank quarterly · 2005Review
- Provider payments and patient charges as policy tools for cost-containment: How successful are they in high-income countries?Human resources for health · 2003Article
- Drug reimbursement: indicators of inappropriate resource allocation.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2002Article
- [Impact and applicability of the system of reference prices].Atencion primaria · 2001Article
- [Modification of the prescription of anticholesteremic agents].Atencion primaria · 2001Article
- [Factors conditioning prescription in primary care].Atencion primaria · 2001Article
- [Relationship between quality and cost of the drug prescription in primary care].Atencion primaria · 2000Article
- Mega-mergers in the pharmaceutical industry. In whose interests?PharmacoEconomics · 1998Article
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Abstract
This is the second of three papers that review international policies to control spending on drugs and to improve the efficiency of drug use. This paper reviews policies influencing doctors' prescribing of drugs--particularly the use of budgetary restrictions, information and feedback, and guidelines--and evaluates the impact of these policies. Studies evaluating incentive systems are limited, but evidence suggests that providing information on its own will not lead to substantial changes in practice and that more active strategies should be evaluated.
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