Deregulation of sale of over-the-counter drugs outside of pharmacies in the Republic of Korea: interrupted-time-series analysis of outpatient visits before and after the policy

• Main Authors: Sung-Youn Chun (Author), Hye-Ki Park (Author), Kyu-Tae Han (Author), Woorim Kim (Author), Hyo-Jung Lee (Author), Eun-Cheol Park (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background We evaluated the effectiveness of a policy allowing for the sale of over-the-counter drugs outside of pharmacies by examining its effect on number of monthly outpatient visits for acute upper respiratory infections, dyspepsia, and migraine. Method We used medical claims data extr...