Table 1.

Input variables in the economic analysis

Variable	Data-source (natural units)	Source for monetary units
Cost for development of evidence based material and translation of drug bulletin	Time spent	Salary payments
Training of outreach pharmacists	Time spent	Salary payments
Training of 'referents' (physicians indicated by each PGC)	Time spent	Salary payments
Printed materials	Invoices	Invoices
Travels costs	Estimate of distance to practices	Travel invoices
Cost of pharmacists doing outreach and making appointments	Record of number of visits and days spent on visits	Salary payments
Cost of other administrative tasks	Estimated time expenditure	Salary payments
Cost of physician time	Record of length of outreach visit and number of physicians	Salary payments
Development of software	Invoices, estimates of time spent	Invoices, salary payments
Drug expenditure	Medical records of prescribing	Italian Agency for Drug 2006