The impact of cost-sharing schemes on drug compliance in Italy: evidence based on quantile regression

Vincenzo Atella and Joanna Kopinska

International Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 59, issue 2, 329-339

Abstract: In the presence of inefficient health-care provision, co-payments are harmful for drug compliance, and this is especially true for patients who are originally good compliers. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2014

Keywords: Compliance; Cost sharing; Co-payments; Quantile regression; Difference-in-differences; Statins; Cholesterol (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-013-0528-4

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