Results of a 12-month quality-circle prescribing improvement programme for GPs |
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| Authors: | Fran oise Riou, Christine Piette, G rard Durand, Jacques Chaperon |
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| Affiliation: | Department de Santé Publique, Faculté de Médicine, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France. francoise.riou@univ-rennes1.fr |
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| Abstract: | BACKGROUND: The impact of a quality-circle GP prescribing improvement programme, implemented in France in 2001-2002, was assessed by a controlled study. The study involved all 27 GPs of three semi-rural areas of Brittany, France. Practice data (overall prescribing cost and markers of prescribing efficiency) were collated in an intention-to-treat analysis, using the Mann-Whitney U test. Twenty-four GPs attended the meetings regularly. The reduction in drug expenditure exceeded the cost of the programme, although variations in size effects were observed among the settings. |
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