Drug prescribing data used in the assessment of general practitioners’ treatment of asthma and urinary tract infection – Experience from the European Drug Education Project
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https://doi.org/10.5324/nje.v11i1.542Sammendrag
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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