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Promoting cost effective prescribing

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 08 Jul 1995 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 311, pages 126-126 (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1468-5833,

Authors: Adrian Towse; Nicholas Wells;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.311.6997.126b

pmid: 7613381

pmc: PMC2550174

Promoting cost effective prescribing

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Abstract

EDITOR,--Nick Freemantle and colleagues criticise the NHS for lagging behind Australia and Canada in promoting cost effective prescribing.1 As members of the working group that agreed the British guidance on conducting economic evaluations2 we take issue with their claim that these countries have a preferable approach. There is no evidence that Australia and Canada have more cost effective prescribing than the United Kingdom. They have centralised reimbursement lists (federal and provincial, respectively), requiring the …

Keywords

Cost-Benefit Analysis, Humans, Family Practice, Drug Prescriptions, Drug Costs, United Kingdom

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