Corruption practices in drug prescribing in Vietnam - an analysis based on qualitative interviews

• Main Authors: Tuan A. Nguyen (Author), Rosemary Knight (Author), Andrea Mant (Author), Husna Razee (Author), Geoffrey Brooks (Author), Thu H. Dang (Author), Elizabeth E. Roughead (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Results from a previous study showed that 40 to 60% of the price of off-patent medicines in Vietnam was typically spent to induce prescribers to use the medicines, and to persuade procurement officers within hospitals to buy them. In this article we examine how and why inducement...