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Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs?

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dc.contributor.authorLopez, Carolina
dc.contributor.authorSautmann, Anja
dc.contributor.authorSchaner, Simone
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-30T22:02:09Z
dc.date.available2020-11-30T22:02:09Z
dc.date.issued2020-11
dc.description.abstractThis study conducted an experiment in Mali to test whether patients pressure doctors to prescribe medical treatment they do not necessarily need. The experiment varied patients’ information about a discount for antimalarial tablets and measured demand for both tablets and costlier antimalarial injections. The study finds evidence of patient-driven demand: informing patients about the discount, instead of letting doctors decide to share this information, increased discount use by 35 percent and overall malaria treatment by 10 percent. These marginal patients rarely had malaria, worsening the illness-treatment match. Providers did not use the information advantage to sell injections -- their use fell in both information conditions.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/780321606314613926/Does-Patient-Demand-Contribute-to-the-Overuse-of-Prescription-Drugs
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9482
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34837
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 9482
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectMALARIA
dc.subjectPRESCRIPTION DRUG DEMAND
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE OVERUSE
dc.subjectDOCTOR-PATIENT INTERACTION
dc.subjectPRESCRIPTION DRUG USE
dc.titleDoes Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs?en
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://reproducibility.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/12 Link to data and reproducibility package
okr.crossref.titleDoes Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs ?
okr.date.disclosure2020-11-25
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T11:31:36.892015Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/780321606314613926/Does-Patient-Demand-Contribute-to-the-Overuse-of-Prescription-Drugs
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.countryMali
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okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Malaria
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Pharmaceuticals & Pharmacoeconomics
okr.topicIndustry::Health Care Services Industry
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group, Development Economics
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