PRESCRIPTION REGISTRY RELIABILITY AND RESPONSIBLE USE, - A CASE FROM ICELAND

• In: Poster Session
• At: Düsseldorf (Germany) (2015)
• Type: Poster
• By: BJÖRNSDÓTTIR, Ingunn (University of Oslo, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics & Natural Sciences, Oslo, Norway)
• Co-author(s): Ingunn Björnsdóttir
  
• Abstract:

  Prescription databases are a valuable source of information on use of prescription medicines. All the Nordic countries have prescription registers, used for research purposes and to some extent as guidance in decision making. Iceland‘s Prescription Registry has the added purpose of surveillance of physician prescribing and of patient consumption..

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