Ongoing Initiatives in China to Enhance Prescribing Efficiency: Impact and Proposals for Improvement

Wenjie Zeng¹, Mengying Feng¹, Stephen M Campbell^2,3, Alexander E Finlayson⁴ and Brian Godman^5,6,7*

¹School of Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, China

²Centre for Primary Care, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

³NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Manchester, UK

⁴Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

⁵Department of Laboratory Medicine, of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden

⁶Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

⁷School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

^*Corresponding Author: Brian Godman, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, SE-141 86, Stockholm, Sweden, Fax: 00468 585 81070