Controversies in primary care. Setting prescribing budgets in general practice. Capitation based prescribing budgets will not work.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Prescriptive variability of drugs by general practitioners.PloS one · 2018
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2. Identifying how age and gender influence prescription drug use in a primary health care environment in Catalonia, Spain.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2008
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3. ASSET (Age/Sex Standardised Estimates of Treatment): a research model to improve the governance of prescribing funds in Italy.PloS one · 2007
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4. [A system, developed by prescribing doctors, of indicators of the quality of pharmaceutical prescription in primary care].Atencion primaria · 2003
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5. Use of risk adjustment in setting budgets and measuring performance in primary care I: how it works.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001
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6. Analysis of the ability of the new needs adjustment formula to improve the setting of weighted capitation prescribing budgets in English general practice.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000
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7. New formula for GP prescribing budgets. General practitioners in England need to understand its implications.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000
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8. Unified budgets for primary care groups.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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9. Having a practice pharmacist can reduce prescribing costs.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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10. Controversies in primary care. Setting prescribing budgets in general practice. Effective prescribing at practice level should be identified and rewarded.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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  Having a practice pharmacist can reduce prescribing costs.1998

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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