TY - JOUR T1 - Prescribing in general practice and the provision of drug information JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 654 LP - 660 VL - 31 IS - 232 AU - J. G. Hamley AU - S. V. Brown AU - J. Crooks AU - J. D. E. Knox AU - J. C. Murdoch AU - A. W. Patterson AU - 20 Tayside general practitioners Y1 - 1981/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/31/232/654.abstract N2 - Duplicate prescriptions were used to monitor patient prescribing and morbidity data for 20 Tayside general practitioners during a two-year study. Each participant took part in two periods of active monitoring separated by a three-month gap. Prescribing statistics collected during the first period of monitoring formed the basis of drug information which was circulated to participants shortly after the start of the second period. Some of this information was purely statistical; other information included comments as well as statistics. Subsequent monitoring assessed any changes in prescribing. The results indicate that drug information of this kind can influence general practitioner prescribing but that there were no differences in response to information which was purely statistical and information which included comments. ER -