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Involving physicians in efforts to control pharmaceutical expenditures
D J Shulkin1, M E McGourty, J Bourret
1Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Medical Interface
|July 7, 1995
Abstract:
Managed care methods of influencing physician prescribing behavior work as well in hospital settings as they do in the ambulatory environment. The authors studied the effect of pharmacist interventions in certain diagnostic areas and found that these efforts do result in significant cost savings.