Impact on In‐ and Out‐of‐Hospital Drug Prescriptions of Including a More Expensive Me‐Too Antidepressant in a Hospital Drug Formulary: a Controlled Longitudinal Study
Abstract:Background: The effect of the inclusion of a more expensive me-too medicine in a hospital drug formulary (HDF) on both in-and out-of-hospital utilization, and the contextual factors which influence this type of induction is rarely studied. Accordingly, this work aimed to quantify the effect of the decision of a hospital of including a more expensive me-too antidepressant in its HDF.Methods: A controlled longitudinal study was carried out in a Regional Health Service of Spain. We performed a segmented regressio… Show more
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