title: General practitioner prescribing at first attendance for diseases.
abstract: Prescriptions written during first attendances of patients in the second quarter of the Australian GP Morbidity and Prescribing Survey (April-June, 1973), have been recorded and the results analysed. In the quarter, April-June, 1973, 186 general practitioners recorded data on all patients in a random week. The total number of attendances was 30,713.
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy; D007239:Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000188:drug therapy; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000188:drug therapy; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000188:drug therapy