Incentivisation practices and their influence on physicians' prescriptions: A qualitative analysis of practice and policy in Pakistan.

• Main Authors: Mishal Khan (Author), Afifah Rahman-Shepherd (Author), Muhammad Naveed Noor (Author), Sabeen Sharif (Author), Meherunissa Hamid (Author), Wafa Aftab (Author), Afshan Khurshid Isani (Author), Robyna Irshad Khan (Author), Rumina Hasan (Author), Sadia Shakoor (Author), Sameen Siddiqi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Focus on profit-generating enterprise in healthcare can create conflicts of interest that adversely impact prescribing and pricing of medicines. Although a global challenge, addressing the impacts on quality of care is particularly difficult in countries where the pharmaceutical industry and physici...