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Cost savings from managing hypertension in primary health care clinics in Kuwait

2021-05-14

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<h4>Background</h4> Generic medications are one of the most common solutions for bringing down pharmaceutical costs for both patients and health care providers. Efforts to increase uptake of generics include policies to support generic substitution and prescription. The aim of this study is to estimate the total cost of drugs prescribed by physicians in selected primary health care centers for managing hypertensio...

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Literature Corpus work: 171690b9-9bdc-5638-9f77-87c1e4522b92
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.07.21256767

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