Prescription‐related illness–a scandalous pandemic

H McGavock - Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… Hugh McGavock BSc MD FRCGP … Hugh McGavock BSc MD FRCGP … or not a consultation
had taken place (Connolly & McGavock 1999). Is this not perilously close to malpractice? …

Market penetration of new drugs in one United Kingdom region: implications for general practitioners and administrators.

H McGavock, CH Webb, GD Johnston, E Milligan - British Medical Journal, 1993 - bmj.com
OBJECTIVE--To determine the use of new drugs in one United Kingdom region. DESIGN--Examination
of data on prescribing of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, new broad …

[BOOK][B] How Drugs Work: Basic Pharmacology for Health Professionals

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… Connolly JP and McGavock H. (1999) Antibacterial prescribing for respiratory tract … and
McGavock H. (1992) Relationship between the number of partners in a general practice and the …

Repeat prescribing management--a cause for concern?

H McGavock, K Wilson-Davis, JP Connolly - British Journal of General …, 1999 - bjgp.org
BACKGROUND: No existing studies of repeat prescribing management have been carried
out on statistically adequate samples permitting an extrapolation of results with regard to the …

Strategies to improve the cost effectiveness of general practitioner prescribing: an international perspective

H McGavock - Pharmacoeconomics, 1997 - Springer
Prescribing costs are rising in all developed countries. The positive reasons for this are
improved screening for diseases, aging populations and better drugs. The negative reason is …

How has fundholding in Northern Ireland affected prescribing patterns? A longitudinal study

T Rafferty, K Wilson-Davis, H McGavock - BMJ, 1997 - bmj.com
Objective: To compare prescribing patterns in general practices before and after the
introduction of fundholding in April 1993 to determine whether fundholding changed prescribing …

Relationship between the number of partners in a general practice and the number of different drugs prescribed by that practice.

M McCarthy, K Wilson-Davis, H McGavock - British Journal of General …, 1992 - bjgp.org
The objective of this study was to assess whether practice size, as measured by the number
of doctors, had any bearing on the range of drugs prescribed. All practices in the northern …

Some patterns of prescribing by urban general practitioners

H McGavock - Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 1988 - bmj.com
To detect the differences in patterns of prescribing between general practitioners with high
and low costs, the costs in prescribing seven symptomatic and seven systematic drug groups …

Unsuspected patterns of drug utilization revealed by interrogation of a regional general practitioner prescribing database

H McGavock, K Wilson‐Davis… - … and Drug Safety, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
… Additionally, McGavock' demonstrated that high cost and frequency prescribers were very
significantly 0, < … McGavock, H. Some patterns of prescribing by urban general practitioners. Br. …

Promoting rational therapeutics: the Swedish guidelines and a UK response.

H McGavock - The British Journal of General Practice, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BEHIND the many recent articles on practice formulariesl'5 lurks a disturbing but fundamental
question:'How much does a general practitioner need to know about the drugs he or she …