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New mechanism to identify cost savings in English NHS prescribing: minimising 'price per unit', a cross-sectional study
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Background: Minimising prescription costs while maintaining quality is a core element of delivering high-value healthcare. There are various strategies to achieve savings, but almost no research to date on determining the most effective approach. We describe a new method of identifying potential savings due to large national variations in drug cost, including variation in generic drug cost, and compare these with potential savings from an established method (generic prescribing). <...>
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019643
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National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme
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School of Primary Care Research (SPCR) grant ref number: 327
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- e019643
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-09
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2044-6055
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pubs:824694
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uri:5de7b930-1ee2-4a3d-9429-e59503987dca
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uuid:5de7b930-1ee2-4a3d-9429-e59503987dca
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- pubs:824694
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- English
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- Croker et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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