Generic medication prescription rates after health system-wide redesign of default optionswithin the electronic health record

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 847-848

  Patel, Mitesh S ^a,b   Day, Susan C ^b   Halpern, Scott D ^b   William Hanson, C ^b   Martinez, Joseph R ^b   Honeywell, Steven ^b   Volpp, Kevin G ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG;

ANXIETY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSOMNIA; INTERNIST; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PAIN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUGS, GENERIC; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS';

EID: 84973462014     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.1691     Document Type: Letter

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