Five years' experience of quality assurance and feedback with individual prescribing profiles at a primary healthcare centre in Stockholm, Sweden

Quality in Primary Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-234

  Wettermark, Björn ^a   Nyman, Kjell ^b   Bergman, Ulf ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Liseberg Primary Health Care Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Feedback; General practice; Prescribing indicators; Primary healthcare; Quality of prescribing

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALENDRONIC ACID; ATENOLOL; ATENOLOL NORDIC; ATORVASTATIN; BENDROFLUMETHIAZIDE; BUDESONIDE; BUPRENORPHINE; CITALOPRAM; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ENALAPRIL; FELODIPINE; FUROSEMIDE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLIBENKLAMID; ISOPHANE INSULIN; ISOSORBIDE 5 NITRATE; LANSOPRAZOLE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LITHIUM SULFATE; LOSARTAN POTASSIUM; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; PENICILLIN V POTASSIUM; PRAVASTATIN; PROPIOMAZINE MALEATE; RAMIPRIL; SERTRALINE; SILDENAFIL; SIMVASTATIN; TROMBYL; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE; ZOPICLONE; ZOPIKLOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG UTILIZATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHARMACY; PHARMACY AND THERAPEUTICS COMMITTEE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER; SWEDEN;

EID: 5644220485     PISSN: 14791072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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