PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Françoise Riou
AU  - Christine Piette
AU  - Gérard Durand
AU  - Jacques Chaperon
TI  - Results of a 12-month quality-circle prescribing improvement programme for GPs
DP  - 2007 Jul 01
TA  - British Journal of General Practice
PG  - 574--576
VI  - 57
IP  - 540
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/57/540/574.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/57/540/574.full
SO  - Br J Gen Pract2007 Jul 01; 57
AB  - 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.