Prescribing in Primary Care

Author: Hobbs, Richard; Bradley, Colin

Publication Year: 1988

Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of contributors
Abbreviations and acronyms
1. Attempts to influence prescribing in the UK
2. National and international patterns of drug use
3. The development of new drugs
4. Licensing and marketing of drugs
5. How doctors choose drugs
6. Approaches to rational prescribing
7. Health economics and prescribing
8. Impact of the UK healthcare reforms on prescribing
9. Responding to changing healthcare systems: adapting prescribing in the new NHS
10. Non-prescription or over-the-counter medicines and the role of the pharmacist
11. Prescribing a complementary therapy; an introduction to homoeopathy
12. The future of prescribing in medicine
Appendices
Index

Format	Print
Keywords	prescription writing, psychopharmacology, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical services, pharmacists, pharmacodynamics, pharmacology, pharmacopoeias, drugs, nurse prescribing
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Classification	pharmacists
Volume	42
ISBN	0192626876
Series	Oxford General Practice
Pages	208
Categories:	Books