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The effect of a change in co-payment on prescription drug demand in a National Health System: The case of 15 drug families by price elasticity of demand

OBJECTIVES: To test the heterogeneity of the effect of a change in pharmaceutical cost-sharing by therapeutic groups in a Spanish region. METHODS: Data: random sample (provided by the Canary Islands Health Service) of 40,471 people covered by the Spanish National Health System (SNHS) in the Canary I...

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Autores principales: Hernández-Izquierdo, Cristina, González López-Valcárcel, Beatriz, Morris, Stephen, Melnychuk, Mariya, Abásolo Alessón, Ignacio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30917142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213403