Antibiotic use following a Korean national policy to prohibit medication dispensing by physicians

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 302-309

  Park, Sylvia ^a,b   Soumerai, Stephen B ^a   Adams, Alyce S ^a,d   Finkelstein, Jonathan A ^a,e   Jang, Sunmee ^c,f   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^a,g,h  

^a HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b Korea Health Industry Development Institute   (South Korea)

^c Health Insurance Review Agency   (South Korea)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e DACP ^*

^f National Health Insurance

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Economic incentive; Physician dispensing; Prescriptions; Republic of Korea

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; POLICY MAKING; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 24044461424     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czi033     Document Type: Article

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