The impact of national centralized drug procurement on health expenditures for lung cancer inpatients: A difference-in-differences analysis in a large tertiary hospital in China

• Main Authors: Yuan-jin Zhang (Author), Yan Ren (Author), Quan Zheng (Author), Jing Tan (Author), Ming-hong Yao (Author), Yun-xiang Huang (Author), Xia Zhang (Author), Kang Zou (Author), Shao-yang Zhao (Author), Xin Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The availability and affordability of medicines remain major health challenges around the world. In March 2019, the Chinese government introduced a pilot National Centralized Drug Procurement (NCDP) program in order to reduce drug prices and improve the affordability of effective and safe medicines....