Improving Use of Medicines and Medical Tests in Primary Care

This book is about optimizing the use of medicines and medical tests in primary care. It provides a comprehensive resource for students, researchers, health practitioners and administrators seeking information on how to design, implement, scale-up and build capability for interventions and programs that result in changes in prescribing and medical/diagnostic test ordering by health professionals.  Drawing on work from Australia, Canada and the United States of America, the book begins with