Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Free drug samples may end up costing uninsured more
Published in MD Week, September 26th, 2008
The retrospective study looked at the prescribing habits of more than 70 physicians in a university-affiliated internal medicine practice in the months immediately before and after the closing of their drug sample closet. The results indicate that the availability of free samples from pharmaceutical companies greatly impacts whether an uninsured patient is given a prescription for a generic or a brand-name drug. The complete...
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Source: MD Week (2008-09-26)
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