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Determinants of prescribing costs amongst single‐handed general practitioners

Author(s) -

Gill P. S.,

Roalfe A.

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622

H-Index - 73

eISSN - 1365-2710

pISSN - 0269-4727

DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2710.2001.00371.x

Subject(s) - medical prescription , census , set (abstract data type) , variation (astronomy) , family medicine , general practice , regression analysis , medicine , actuarial science , psychology , environmental health , business , nursing , statistics , computer science , population , physics , mathematics , astrophysics , programming language

Objective: To investigate the contribution of patient and doctor characteristics in explaining observed variations in prescribing costs between individual doctors. Method: Secondary analysis of data collected from general practitioners, Family Health Services Authorities, 1991 Census data set and the Prescription Pricing Authority. Results: A multiple regression model with four variables (social class, training status, generic prescribing and length of time in general practice) explained only 16·5% of the variation in costs/ASTRO‐PU. Conclusion: This study highlights that very little of the variation in prescribing costs can readily be explained. Further research is needed to document contributing factors.

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