Characteristics of general practices that prescribe appropriately for asthma

Abstract

the study period.The inflationary influences on prescribing costs discussed in the introduction have been more important than all of the cost control influences (of which fundholding was only one) combined.The effect of marketing pressure from the pharmaceutical industry is probably the most powerful of these influences; it is discernible in this study in the increase in cost per item of drugs for diseases of the central nervous system and for gastrointestinal disorders.No clinical research evidence exists that