Differences in quality use of medicines between countries that did versus did not report implementation of specific medicine policies.

The table presents the weighted mean (and 95% confidence interval) of differences (in percent) across ten selected measures of QUM between countries that did versus did not report implementation of specific medicine policies.∧Joint regulation by government and industry, as compared to regulation by government alone.CME, continuing medical education; DTC, drug and therapeutics committee; EML, essential medicines list; NMP, national medicines policy; STG, standard treatment guidelines.Differences in quality use of medicines between countries that did versus did not report implementation of specific medicine policies.