Factors Influencing Physicians' Willingness to Substitute Generics For Brand-Names when Prescribing Antimicrobial Drugs
Physicians often continue to prescribe brand-name drugs to their patients even when less expensive generic equivalents are available. In a 1994 study, Judith Hellerstein advances two hypotheses to explain this behavior. First, doctors may consciously conclude that certain brand-name drugs impart a r...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30558 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-504320749731261/ |