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Weights were obtained by dividing each average prescribing cost by the total average cost (€195.6).
While they cannot derive the average cost by individual age groups, they can still calculate the total average prescribing cost (total pharmaceutical expenditure divided by total assisted population).
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The average prescribing costs by age group were calculated simply by dividing the total pharmaceutical cost per age group by the total number of subjects in the same age bracket.
A 0 14 year old male, on average, accounts for just one fifth of the mean annual prescribing cost, while a 75 year old male uses 3.3 times as many medicines as the average.
There was a reduction in average antibiotic days per patient episode (5.1 vs. 4.2) (P = 0.0291) and the prescribing cost savings were £13,558 (47%).
Prescribing cost was lower for nitrofurantoin.
Their prescribing indicators include the percentage of generic prescribing, cost of statin prescriptions, and antibiotic prescribing rates.
The implicit assumption is that, over a number of years, practices will move towards the average and that variation in prescribing costs between practices will be reduced [2].
If mainly idiosyncratic prescribing by general practitioners causes the unexplained variations, the introduction of capitation-based budgets would gradually move practices with high prescribing costs towards the national average.
A Monte Carlo Model is used to simulate the effects of demographic change (by region, age, gender, coverage, claims rates and average claims cost) will have on GMS prescribing costs in 2016, 2021 and 2026 under different scenarios.
Those aged over 75 (β =1.195) were the greatest contributors to annual GMS prescribing costs.
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