SUMMARY
A study was made of Dutch physicians' prescribing habits of analgesic and inflammatory drugs in 1975 and 1978 in order to assess the effect of introducing a formulary. In 1978 more anti‐inflammatory drugs were prescribed than in 1975. Observed differences in preference of physicians for certain agents were only partly altered by the formulary.
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