Impacts of the zero mark-up drug policy on hospitalization expenses of COPD inpatients in Sichuan province, western China: an interrupted time series analysis

• Main Authors: Junman Wang (Author), Peiyi Li (Author), Jin Wen (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Since 1950, the hospitals had been permitted to take a 15% mark-up of drug purchase price to remedy the loss of public hospitals and doctors' salaries in China due to tight government budget. This policy resulted in an increasing over-prescriptions which increased burden for...