Regional Variation in Physician Adoption of Antipsychotics: Impact on US Medicare expenditures

Background—Regional variation in US Medicare prescription drug spending is driven by higher prescribing of costly brand-name drugs in some regions. This variation likely arises from differences in the speed of diffusion of newly-approved medications. Second-generation antipsychotics were widely ado...

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Main Authors: Donohue, Julie M., Normand, Sharon-Lise T., Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela, Men, Aiju, Huskamp, Haiden A., Berndt, Ernst R
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108639
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6388-0768