Retrospective, multicohort analysis of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) to determine differences in the cost of medication wastage, dispensing fees and prescriber time of issuing either short (<60 days) or long (≥60 days) prescription lengths in primary care for common, chronic conditions in the UK.

BMJ Open · 2017 · PMC5719293 · PMID 29208621

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In the hypertension cohort, there was a slight trend of decreasing magnitude of the mean cost over the 11 years for the shorter group; a decrease in mean cost was limited to years 2013 and 2014 in the longer group.

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