Lipid-lowering drug use in Italian primary care: effects of reimbursement criteria revision
Lipid-lowering drug use in Italian primary care: effects of reimbursement criteria revision
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UVEC Group , Trifirò, G. , Alacqua, M. , Corrao, S. , Moretti, S. , Tari, D. U. , Galdo, M. , Caputi, A. P. and Arcoraci, V.
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
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English
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
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Objective
To assess whether the prescribing pattern of lipid-lowering drugs (LLD) changed after reimbursement criteria revision in a general practice in southern Italy.
Methods
From the Caserta-1 Local Health Service database, 93 general practitioners (GPs) who had consistently sent data about their patients during the years 2003-2005 were...
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Lipid-lowering drug use in Italian primary care: effects of reimbursement criteria revision
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_69726031
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_69726031
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0031-6970
E-ISSN
1432-1041
DOI
10.1007/s00228-007-0459-1