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Nikolaos Polyzos1, Catherine Kastanioti, Christos Zilidis
1Department of Social Administration and Political Science, Democritus University, of Thrace, Komotini, Greece. catherinekastanioti@yahoo.gr.
Background:
In Greece, due to the ongoing economic crisis a number of measures aiming at rationalising expenditure implemented. A new e-prescribing system, under a unified healthcare fund was the main pillar of these reforms focus on monitoring and auditing prescribing patterns.
Objective:
Main objective of this study was to document the Greek experience with the new national e-prescribing system.
Methods:
We analyse the dispensed prescriptions over the period 2013-2014, stratified into four levels: therapeutic subgroup, patent status, physician's specialty and geographical region.
Results:
Data analysis offered a comprehensive insight into pharmaceutical expenditure over the timeframe and revealed discrepancies regarding composition of spending, brand-generic substitution within certain therapeutic subgroups, physicians' prescribing behaviour based on medical specialty, therapeutic subgroup as well as regional per capita measures.
Conclusions:
E-prescribing system is a valuable tool providing sound information to health policymakers in order to monitor and rationalize pharmaceutical expenditure, in value and volume terms.
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