Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector
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- Gerald J. Pruckner & Thomas Schober, 2018. "Hospitals and the generic versus brand‐name prescription decision in the outpatient sector," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(8), pages 1264-1283, August.
- Gerald J. Pruckner & Thomas Schober, 2016. "Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector," Economics working papers 2016-11, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
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Prescription decision; generic drugs; physician behavior; hospitals;All these keywords.
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- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
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