Original research
par
Zykova, Yana et al
Date de publication
2022
Géographie
Sweden
Langue de la ressource
English
Texte disponible en version intégrale
Oui
Open Access / OK to Reproduce
Oui
Évalué par des pairs
Yes
L’objectif
We study doctor shopping behaviour in Västerbotten County of Sweden
Constatations/points à retenir
Our empirical results suggest that there is a significant and positive relationship between the number of overlapping doses and the number of unique providers in the overlap. More specifically, we find that visiting different providers on average gives patients up to three additional DDDs per day. This is three times higher than the standard treatment dose.
La conception ou méthodologie de recherche
Our dataset contains all drug prescriptions purchased by the residents of Västerbotten in the period from January 2014 to April 2016 (approximately 160,000 observations).
Mots clés
About prescribers
About PWUD
