Table 1

Included systematic reviews

Study details	Literature search end date	Summary of authors’ objective	Intervention
Carroll8	09/2002	To evaluate whether community pharmacists have the ability to influence prescribing decisions and the extent to which they do so	Pharmacist interventions
Figueiras et al11	1997	To propose effective continuing medical education strategies to improve prescribing practices	Educational strategies
Gibson et al14	04/2005	To determine whether patients respond to increased cost sharing by substituting less expensive alternatives for medications with higher levels of copayments or coinsurance	Cost-sharing
Green et al12	01/2009	To determine the effects of a pharmaceutical policy restricting the reimbursement of selected medications on drug use, healthcare utilisation, health outcomes and costs	Policy restrictions on reimbursed drugs
Ivers et al 13	09/2011	To investigate the effectiveness of audit and feedback to improve processes and outcomes of care and to examine factors that could influence intervention effectiveness	Audit and feedback
Kaplan et al7	01/2012	To inquire into the nature, extent and strength of the evidence for successful implementation of progeneric medicine policies in low-income and middle-income countries	Progeneric medicine policies
Mitchell and Sullivan10	1997	To appraise findings from studies examining the impact of computers on primary care consultations	Computer systems for use by doctors during consultations
McKibbon et al9	09/2009	To review the evidence on the impact of health information technology (IT) on all phases of the medication management process	IT used in the medication management process
Sturm et al 6	08/2005	To determine the effects of prescribing policies using financial incentives for prescribers on drug use, healthcare utilisation, health outcomes and costs	Financial incentives (fund holding, drug budgets)