A tabular list of the drugs most commonly prescribed in British Columbia where PharmaCare paid a portion of the cost. The dataset was published by the Government of British Columbia and covers the fiscal year 2010-11. It is available in CSV and HTML formats.
Use Cases
- Analyze prescription drug reimbursement patterns based on PharmaCare cost-sharing
- Identify the most frequently prescribed drugs in British Columbia based on reimbursement data
- Benchmark public drug plan expenditures for the 2010-11 fiscal year
- Study the relationship between prescription frequency and public subsidy
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Government of British Columbia
- Specific temporal coverage for the fiscal year 2010-11
- Available in CSV format for direct analysis
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- 2010-11
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:36:09.168843; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada