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different brands with continuously increasing the size of market. In this competition medical practitioner and physicians are … the key customers for this industry. Physicians are actually the ultimate decision holder of which brand should be … revolving around product, price and promotions and Companies are making marketing tools to draw the attention of physicians for …
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In a complex economy, production is vertical and crosses jurisdictional lines. Goods are often produced by a global or national firm upstream and improved or distributed by local firms downstream. In this context, heightened products liability may have unintended consequences for consumer...
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Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) are designed to make employees more cost- and health-conscious by exposing them more directly to the costs of their care, which should lower demand for care and, in turn, control premium growth. These features have made consumer-directed plans increasingly...
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In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the … a self-dispensation regime. Pharmacies in cantons that allow physicians to dispense drugs tend to have relatively higher …
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We measure the impact of direct-to-consumer television advertising (DTCA) by drug manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits shocks to local advertising markets generated by idiosyncrasies of the political advertising cycle as well as a regulatory intervention affecting a single...
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One way that physicians learn about new treatments and technologies is through interactions with other physicians. Such … interactions are shaped, in part, by the structure of group medical practices: physicians who work in the same practice have more … opportunities to exchange ideas. To quantify the importance of physician practices in technology adoption, I analyze physicians …
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We use population administrative data from Sweden to study adherence to 63 medication-related guidelines. We compare the adherence of patients without personal access to medical expertise to the adherence of those with access, namely doctors and their close relatives. We estimate that, among...
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We test the effect of the introduction of Medicare Part D on physician prescribing behavior by using data on physician visits from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) 2002-2004 and 2006-2009 for patients aged 60-69. We use a combined DD-RD specification that is an improvement...
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