Drug prescribing data used in the assessment of general practitioners’ treatment of asthma and urinary tract infection – Experience from the European Drug Education Project

Authors

  • Per Lagerløv

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5324/nje.v11i1.542

Abstract

 

ABSTRACT

Describing drug treatment given by general practitioners, and quantifying changes in their prescribing

behaviour due to educational intervention, were important parts of the method developed and applied

by the European Drug Education Project. Based on the physicians’ prescription data, individual patients

were defined as having either asthma or urinary tract infections. Prescribing indicators were established

for assessing the quality (acceptable or unacceptable) of the drug treatment. The diagnose definitions

and prescribing indicators are discussed in more detail in relation to feeding back individual prescribing

data to educational groups of physicians to improve the quality of their drug therapy.

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Published

2009-11-06

How to Cite

Lagerløv, P. (2009). Drug prescribing data used in the assessment of general practitioners’ treatment of asthma and urinary tract infection – Experience from the European Drug Education Project. Norsk Epidemiologi, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.5324/nje.v11i1.542

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2001): Pharmacoepidemiolandy (Volume 11, No. 1, 3- 117).

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