Prescribing Cost Savings by GP Fundholders: Long-Term or Short-Term?
研究分析了全科医生基金持有者控制处方成本增长的效果持续时间，发现成本节约是短期而非长期的，且加入计划前未出现策略性成本提高行为。
Fundholding general practices have been observed to be more successful than non-fundholders in controlling the growth of their prescribing costs. Debate persists over the likely duration of this fundholding effect. Regression analysis of changes in prescribing costs for a large sample of practices over 5 years supports the view that prescribing cost economies have been short-rather than long-term, and that practices entering fundholding did not engage in strategic, cost-raising behaviour prior to joining the scheme.