Does price regulation affect atorvastatin sales in India? An impact assessment through interrupted time series

Sakthivel Selvaraj1, Habib Hasan Farooqui2, Aashna Mehta1

  • 1Health Economics and Financing, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, Delhi, India.

BMJ Open
|January 26, 2019
PubMed
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