Effects of County Public Hospital Reform on Procurement Costs and Volume of Antibiotics: A Quasi-Natural Experiment in Hubei Province, China.
Yuqing TangChaojie LiuJunjie LiuXinping ZhangKeyuan ZuoPublished in: PharmacoEconomics (2019)
County public hospitals procured more antibiotics and greater numbers of expensive antibiotics, such as those administered via injection, to compensate for the loss of income from the sale of medicines, leading to an increased total cost of antibiotics.