Medical school gift restriction policies and physician prescribing of newly marketed psychotropic medications: difference-in-differences analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effect of attending a medical school with an active policy on restricting gifts from representatives of pharmaceutical and device industries on subsequent prescribing behavior.

Design

Difference-in-differences approach.

Setting

14 US medical schools with an active gift restriction policy in place by 2004.

Participants

Prescribing patterns in 2008 and 2009 of physicians attending one of the schools compared with physicians graduating from the same schools before the implementation of the policy, as well as a set of contemporary matched controls.

Main outcome measure

Probability that a physician would prescribe a newly marketed medication over existing alternatives of three psychotropic classes: lisdexamfetamine among stimulants, p

SUBMITTER: King M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623604 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature