Association Between Academic Medical Center Pharmaceutical Detailing Policies and Physician Prescribing.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In an effort to regulate physician conflicts of interest, some US academic medical centers (AMCs) enacted policies restricting pharmaceutical representative sales visits to physicians (known as detailing) between 2006 and 2012. Little is known about the effect of these policies on physician prescribing.

Objective

To analyze the association between detailing policies enacted at AMCs and physician prescribing of actively detailed and not detailed drugs.

Design, setting, and participants

The study used a difference-in-differences multivariable regression analysis to compare changes in prescribing by physicians before and after implementation of detailing policies at AMCs in 5 states (California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York) that made up

SUBMITTER: Larkin I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815013 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature