Trends in antidiabetic drug use and expenditure in public hospitals in Northwest China, 2012-21: a case study of Gansu Province

• Main Authors: Wenxuan Cao (Author), Hu Feng (Author), Yaya Yang (Author), Lei Wang (Author), Xuemei Wang (Author), Yongheng Ma (Author), Defang Zhao (Author), Xiaobin Hu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Since the twenty-first century, the prevalence of diabetes has risen globally year by year. In Gansu Province, an economically underdeveloped province in northwest China, the cost of drugs for diabetes patients accounted for one-third of their total drug costs. To fundamentally r...