Increases in Anti-infective Drug Prices, Subsequent Prescribing, and Outpatient Costs

Junsoo Lee; Heesoo Joo; Brian A Maskery; Jonathan D Alpern; Chanhyun Park; Michelle Weinberg; William M Stauffer

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.13963

Increases in Anti-infective Drug Prices, Subsequent Prescribing, and Outpatient Costs

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jun 1;4(6):e2113963. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.13963.

Authors

Junsoo Lee^{1

2}, Heesoo Joo¹, Brian A Maskery¹, Jonathan D Alpern³, Chanhyun Park^{4

5}, Michelle Weinberg¹, William M Stauffer^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Department of Economics, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany.
³ Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
⁴ Department of Pharmacy and Health Systems Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Now with Health Outcomes Division, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the association of prices for drugs to treat hookworm and pinworm with prescribing and prescription-filling behaviors and total outpatient treatment costs.

MeSH terms

Anti-Infective Agents / administration & dosage
Anti-Infective Agents / economics*
Drug Costs / statistics & numerical data
Drug Costs / trends*
Humans
Outpatients / statistics & numerical data
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends*

Substances

Anti-Infective Agents