Timeframe
2004–2005
Funding
Ministry of Health
COMPASS staff
Daniel Patrick
Roy Lay-Yee
Janet Pearson
Martin von Randow
Collaborators
University of Auckland
Bruce Arroll
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Ngaire Kerse
Jeff Harrison
Joan Halliwell
Carol Ramage
Ministry of Health
Stephen Lungley
Description
This project was run through the University of Auckland’s School of Population Health. COMPASS staff were involved first in their roles for the Centre for Health Services Research and Policy and then as part of the Social Statistics Research Group. The main aims of the project were to:
- Identify sources General Practitioners (GPs) use to inform themselves on prescribing decisions;
- Describe how GPs keep their information up-to-date;
- Identify what other factors influence GPs’ prescribing decisions.
Data were collected from 99 GPs and 17 GP trainees with a half-hour questionnaire delivered via Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI).
A full report was prepared for the Ministry of Health, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20190202220335/
http://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/prescribinginformationresources.doc.