Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Introduction Health systems worldwide are struggling to ensure the affordability of medicines. Prescription, dispensing, and pharmaceutical expenditures are key variables that highlight the need to understand how global scientific evidence is generated against factors (implicit and non-explicit) tha...
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| description | Introduction Health systems worldwide are struggling to ensure the affordability of medicines. Prescription, dispensing, and pharmaceutical expenditures are key variables that highlight the need to understand how global scientific evidence is generated against factors (implicit and non-explicit) that influence these variables. Objectives Explore and provide a detailed description of the characteristics of the global scientific production of Open Access articles related to the prescription, dispensing and pharmaceutical expenditure faced by health systems worldwide. Methods A five-stage scientometric mapping was performed based on a systematic search of 8 databases. The five stages are: i) retrieval, ii) migration, iii) analysis, iv) visualization and v) interpretation. Results A corpus of evidence from 103 systematic literature reviews was obtained, screened and sifted, visualizing the countries, authors, databases, journals, institutions and time periods that contributed most to evidence generation. Central research themes are identified and phenomena related to article publication are discussed. Conclusions The analysis reveals a clear leadership of the United Kingdom and the United States in scientific production on prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical expenditure in health systems worldwide. This scientific production is mainly focused on financing policies, pharmaceutical incentives and interventions, and rational use of medicines. There is also evidence of the scarcity of scientific production in Latin American publications and authors, which could generate interest for future research. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-035c2f50330d45ada9ac348df7d844652025-08-20T02:13:48ZengF1000 Research LtdF1000Research2046-14022025-02-011310.12688/f1000research.156306.2177628Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]Riascos-Ochoa J0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6680-8510Tocaruncho-Ariza L. H1https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4485-7614Jimenez-Barbosa W. G2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0467-0365Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Bogotá, Bogota, ColombiaMinisterio de Salud y Protección Social de Colombia, Bogota, ColombiaUniversidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Bogotá, ColombiaIntroduction Health systems worldwide are struggling to ensure the affordability of medicines. Prescription, dispensing, and pharmaceutical expenditures are key variables that highlight the need to understand how global scientific evidence is generated against factors (implicit and non-explicit) that influence these variables. Objectives Explore and provide a detailed description of the characteristics of the global scientific production of Open Access articles related to the prescription, dispensing and pharmaceutical expenditure faced by health systems worldwide. Methods A five-stage scientometric mapping was performed based on a systematic search of 8 databases. The five stages are: i) retrieval, ii) migration, iii) analysis, iv) visualization and v) interpretation. Results A corpus of evidence from 103 systematic literature reviews was obtained, screened and sifted, visualizing the countries, authors, databases, journals, institutions and time periods that contributed most to evidence generation. Central research themes are identified and phenomena related to article publication are discussed. Conclusions The analysis reveals a clear leadership of the United Kingdom and the United States in scientific production on prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical expenditure in health systems worldwide. This scientific production is mainly focused on financing policies, pharmaceutical incentives and interventions, and rational use of medicines. There is also evidence of the scarcity of scientific production in Latin American publications and authors, which could generate interest for future research.https://f1000research.com/articles/13-1333/v2Health systems Drug financing Price regulation insurance drug costeng |
| spellingShingle | Riascos-Ochoa J Tocaruncho-Ariza L. H Jimenez-Barbosa W. G Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] F1000Research Health systems Drug financing Price regulation insurance drug cost eng |
| title | Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full | Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_fullStr | Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_short | Incentives in prescribing, dispensing and pharmaceutical spending: A scientometric mapping. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_sort | incentives in prescribing dispensing and pharmaceutical spending a scientometric mapping version 2 peer review 2 approved |
| topic | Health systems Drug financing Price regulation insurance drug cost eng |
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