Healthy Skepticism Library item: 9146
Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.
Publication type: Journal Article
Bloor K, Freemantle N.
Lessons from international experience in controlling pharmaceutical expenditure II: Influencing doctors
British Medical Journal 1996 Jun 15; 312:1525-1527
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/312/7045/1525
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.
Keywords:
Budgets
Drug Costs
Drug Industry
Drug Information Services
Feedback
Great Britain
Health Expenditures*
Health Policy
Humans
Pharmaceutical Preparations/economics*
Physician's Practice Patterns/economics*
Practice Guidelines
Prescriptions, Drug/economics
