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Prescribing Behavior of General Practitioners for Generic Drugs
Berna Tuncay1, Sergio Pagano2, Mario De Santis3
1Department of Economics, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey.
Abstract:
The factors influencing General Practitioners' (GPs) prescribing behavior are diverse in terms of health care policies and regulations, GPs' education and experience, demographic trends and disease profiles. Thus, it can be useful to analyze the specific local patterns, as they affect the quality of healthcare and the stability of the healthcare market. The aim of the present longitudinal retrospective study is to investigate the prescription of generic drugs in a database of about 4.6 million prescriptions from a sample of 38 GPs practicing in Salerno, Italy, within a timeframe of 15 years, from 2001 to 2015. The GPs in our study show a general tendency to increase prescriptions of generic drugs during the studied time span, to fulfill regulatory obligations and with some differences in prescription behavior according to age, gender and experience. The generics prescription depends also on the different diagnoses, with some diagnostic areas showing a greater generic drug prescription rate. Expanding this research to larger datasets would allow deepening the knowledge of the patterns of GPs' prescribing decisions, to provide evidence to be used in comparison between different national settings.
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