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Matching Prescription Drugs and Consumers

Author : Paul H. Rubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Matching Prescription Drugs and Consumers written by Paul H. Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first paper to discuss the benefits of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. It was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985. The authors are Alison Masson (AKA Alison Keith) and Paul H. Rubin, and the paper was written when the authors were economists at the Federal Trade Commission. The argument was that there were pieces of information available to patients that might not be available to physicians, and DTC advertising could make use of this information. For example, a patient might have stopped taking a drug because of side effects. In that case, he would not be contact with a physician, and so might not obtain information about new drugs lacking that side effect. Similarly, a new treatment for a previously untreatable condition might become available, but the patient would not be in a position to learn of this new treatment if he were not in contact with a physician. It was also argued that DTC advertising could increase competition between various medications, and so lead to lower prices. When the paper was written, the FDA had in place a moratorium on DTC advertising. The paper as later cited by the FDA in its decision to allow such advertising. The arguments can still explain the benefits of most DTC advertising.

Comparative Pricing of Prescription Drugs Sold in the United States and Canada and the Effects on U.S. Consumers

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Pricing of Prescription Drugs Sold in the United States and Canada and the Effects on U.S. Consumers written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prescription Drugs

Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781289022525
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Prescription Drugs written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed five technical studies conducted by a marketing research firm which claim that direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising is increasing among both physicians and consumers, focusing on whether the methodology sufficiently ensured the accuracy and generalizability of its claim. GAO found that: (1) the physicians' surveys in the marketing firm's studies could not be generalized, since the firm did not make adjustments to ensure that the sample adequately represented physicians included on the American Medical Association's (AMA) Master List and those who had an office practice; (2) the validity of the physician survey findings were questionable, since response rates were only 11 percent or less, far below normal standards for opinion surveys; (3) the consumer surveys did not permit a generalizable measurement of consumer opinions, since the study design did not effectively ensure that the sample's opinions matched the population's opinions about direct-to-consumer advertising; (4) the validity of the consumer survey findings was questionable, since the response rates for the consumer samples were below normal standards, making it impossible to know whether the opinions of the nonrespondents were the same as those of the respondents; and (5) in many cases the studies' analytical interpretations of responses were not consistent with conventional analyses of data used in opinion research.

Substitute Prescription Drug Act

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Substitute Prescription Drug Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Empirical Model of Heterogeneous Consumer Search for Retail Prescription Drugs

Author : Alan Tad Sorensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis An Empirical Model of Heterogeneous Consumer Search for Retail Prescription Drugs by : Alan Tad Sorensen

Download or read book An Empirical Model of Heterogeneous Consumer Search for Retail Prescription Drugs written by Alan Tad Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses detailed data on retail pharmacy transactions to make inferences about the nature and intensity of consumer search for prescription drugs. Prescription prices exhibit patterns that should, in principle, induce search: in particular, prices vary widely across stores, and stores' price rankings are inconsistent across drugs (so the low-price pharmacy is different for one prescription vs. another). Estimates from a model of pharmacy choice suggest that search intensities are generally low: I estimate that for a typical prescription, the fraction of consumers that price-shops is approximately 5-10 percent. However, variation in this estimated search intensity across drugs is substantial and appears to be consistent with explanations based on rational search; for instance, price-shopping is more prevalent for maintenance medications than for one-time purchases, presumably because the benefits of finding a low price are magnified for prescriptions that are purchased repeatedly. Under some relatively strong assumptions imposed by the empirical model, the data also identify parameters of a search cost distribution, suggesting that the cost of conducting an exhaustive price search is approximately $15 for the average consumer

Preventing Medication Errors

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309133734
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Medication Errors written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of health care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newest volume in the series. Responding to the key messages in earlier volumes of the seriesâ€"To Err Is Human (2000), Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), and Patient Safety (2004)â€"this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It begins by providing an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. Preventing Medication Errors also examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and the effectiveness of error prevention strategies. Presenting data that will foster the reduction of medication errors, the book provides action agendas detailing the measures needed to improve the safety of medication use in both the short- and long-term. Patients, primary health care providers, health care organizations, purchasers of group health care, legislators, and those affiliated with providing medications and medication- related products and services will benefit from this guide to reducing medication errors.

Prescriptions, Patients, Profits, Perils and Pro-People Choices

Author : Ira Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595438174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Prescriptions, Patients, Profits, Perils and Pro-People Choices written by Ira Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart consumers can significantly reduce drug-related problems and costs, and even live healthier lives by doing so. Robinson's exposé, Prescriptions, Patients, Profits, Perils and Pro-People Choices, explains it all. The author explains how prescription prices are built from incremental costs of drug discovery through dosage form design, clinical trials, manufacturing, marketing and promotion, drug distribution through the drug supply chain to the ultimate consumer, and dispensing and medication therapy management services at the pharmacy to ensure healthy treatment outcomes. How powerful anti-consumer, anti-competitive industry forces impact consumer drug choices, prices and safety is illustrated. In the process, the reader is guided through a complex maze of drug discovery, regulatory approval of drugs and supplements, drug benefit versus risk considerations, widespread medication errors, other medication-related problems, and security of the nation's drug supply system. The author maintains a focus on promoting prescription drug effectiveness, safety, unimpeded availability, and affordable consumer costs. The interrelationships between adverse drug events, modifiable self-inflicted drug-related problems like prescription drug overuse and abuse, and rampart drug non-compliance, and the problems of consumer drug and health literacy are clearly explained. Less expensive alternatives to brand-name drugs are discussed, including the thrifty generics solution and a self-care option, combining healthy lifestyles with responsible use of prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, wisely selected dietary and herbal supplements, and some proven homeopathic remedies.

Pills that Don't Work

Author : Sidney M. Wolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Pills that Don't Work written by Sidney M. Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empirical Studies of Oligopolistic Pricing and Heterogeneous Consumer Search

Author : Alan Tad Sorensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis Empirical Studies of Oligopolistic Pricing and Heterogeneous Consumer Search by : Alan Tad Sorensen

Download or read book Empirical Studies of Oligopolistic Pricing and Heterogeneous Consumer Search written by Alan Tad Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dietary Supplements

Author : United States. Federal Trade Commission. Bureau of Consumer Protection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Dietary Supplements written by United States. Federal Trade Commission. Bureau of Consumer Protection and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prescription Drugs

Author : Consumer guide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781561734528
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Prescription Drugs written by Consumer guide and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mass Media and Health

Author : Kim Walsh-Childers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317406907
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Mass Media and Health written by Kim Walsh-Childers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass Media and Health: Examining Media Impact on Individuals and the Health Environment covers media health influences from a variety of angles, including the impact on individual and public health, the intentionality of these effects, and the nature of the outcomes. Author Kim Walsh-Childers helps readers understand the influence that mass media has on an individual’s health beliefs and, in turn, their behaviors. She explains how public health policy can be affected, altering the environment in which a community’s members make choices, and discusses the unintentional health effects of mass media, examining them through the strategic lens of news framing and advocacy campaigns. Written for students across a variety of disciplines, Mass Media and Health will serve as primary reading for courses examining the broader view of mass media and health impacts, as well as providing supplemental reading for courses on health communication, public health campaigns, health journalism, and media effects.

Generic Substitution and Prescription Drug Prices

Author : Alison Masson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Generic Substitution and Prescription Drug Prices written by Alison Masson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Approved Prescription Drug Products

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Approved Prescription Drug Products written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by supplements.

Substitute Prescription Drug Act

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Book Synopsis Substitute Prescription Drug Act by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance

Download or read book Substitute Prescription Drug Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pills that Don't Work

Author : Sidney M. Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374233419
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Pills that Don't Work written by Sidney M. Wolfe and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Elgar Companion to Health Economics

Author : Andrew M. Jones
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845428919
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Health Economics written by Andrew M. Jones and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is a timely addition. . . It contains 50 chapters, from 90 contributors around the world, on the topical and policy-relevant aspects of health economics. . . there is a balanced coverage of theoretical and empirical materials, and conceptual and practical issues. . . I have found the Companion very useful. Sukhan Jackson, Economic Analysis and Policy This encyclopedic work provides interested readers with an authoritative and comprehensive overview of many, if not all, of the current research issues in health economics. Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above. R.M. Mullner, Choice The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key topics. The volume brings together 50 chapters written by more than 90 leading international contributors. The contributions to the Companion are concise and focus on specific concepts, methods and key evidence. The Companion is a comprehensive and authoritative original reference volume covering theoretical and empirical issues in health economics with a balanced range of material on equity and efficiency in health care systems, health technology assessment and issues of concern for low and middle income countries. It is organised into two broad sections. The first deals with the economics of population health and of health care systems, analysed with both equity and efficiency goals in mind. The second covers the conceptual and practical issues that arise in the evaluation of health care technologies: most often applied to pharmaceuticals but also relevant for other interventions. Many of the contributions address topical and policy-relevant issues including: the economic causes of the growth of obesity in the West, the link between illicit drug use and crime, the consequences of leaving people uninsured against the costs of health care, the impact of globalisation on the international trade in health care services, the role of informal payments in many health care systems, what equal treatment for equal needs means in practice, whether direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals is desirable, and how economic evidence is influencing the way that new technologies are made available to patients. Other chapters stress the research done by health economists to develop theoretical models and empirical methods that illuminate the workings of health care systems.