Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show that there are strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and the outpatient sector using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a...

Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...