Prescribing general practitioners

McGavock, H. (1997), Strategies to improve the cost effectiveness of general practitioner prescribing. An international perspective , Pharmacoeconomics, 12, 307-11. 

J. Bradlow and A. Coutler, Effects of fundholding and indicative prescribing schemes on general practitioners prescribing... 

Srisurapanont, M., Garner, P., Critchley, J. Wongpakaran, N. (2005). Benzodiazepine prescribing behaviour and attitudes a survey among general practitioners practicing in northern Thailand. BMC Fam. Pract., 6, 27. 

Pharmacists receive prescriptions by telephone, fax, as written prescriptions from individual prescribers, practicing in a group, or hospitals and other institutions. Telephone orders are reduced to a written prescription (hard copy) by pharmacists. Generally, prescriptions include printed forms called prescription blanks which include the name, address, and telephone number of the prescriber a provision to write the name, address, age or date of birth of the patient and the I symbol. Medication orders are prescription equivalents which are written by practitioners (prescribers) in a hospital or a similar institution. Components of medication orders with appropriate examples are presented in the subsequent section. 

The United Kingdom spends less on medicines per head than almost any other western country (Figure 11.4). In addition, the United Kingdom is very conservative and it takes a very long time for UK prescribers to take up a new product. General practitioners (GPs) in the United Kingdom are... 

Jones MI, Greenfield SM, Bradley CP. Prescribing new drugs quahtative study of influences on consultants and general practitioners. BM] 2001 323 378-81. 

As part of primary care, general practitioners (GPs) are free to prescribe virtually any medicine they consider desirable for the patient, with the exception of medicines in certain therapeutic categories covered by the 1985 and 1992 Selected List restrictions (see below). 

Verheul R, van den Brink W Hartgers C (1995). Prevalence of personality disorders among alcoholics and drug addicts an overview. European Addiction Research, 1, 166-77 Vignau J Brunelle E (1998). Differences between general practitioner- and addiction centre-prescribed buprenorphine substitution therapy in France. Preliminary results. European Addiction Research, 4, suppl 1, 24-8 Vocci FJ Appel NM (2007). Approaches to the development of medications for the... 

As stated above in entry 36, my problems began in the early 1990s with a severe sinus infection. The hyper-reactivity that followed has remained. Despite repeated visits to the general practitioner and the ear, nose and throat specialist due to my nose and sinus problems, little really changed I was prescribed some inhalers, pills and antibiotics. For years I had a slightly high body temperature (99.3—100.4 degrees Fahrenheit)... 

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