Effects of pharmaceutical cost containment policies on doctors’ prescribing behavior: Focus on antibiotics

Euna Han, Su-Mi Chae, Nam-Soon Kim and Sylvia Park

Health Policy, 2015, vol. 119, issue 9, 1245-1254

Abstract: We analyzed the effect of the outpatient prescription incentive program and price cuts of listed medicines in South Korea on prescription drug expenditures and prescription behaviors, focusing on antibiotics for the most common infectious diseases.

Keywords: Outpatient prescription incentive program; Across-the-board price cut; Prescription drug expenditures; Prescription behaviors; Antibiotics; South Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.05.005

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