A Medicare database review found that physician preferences increasingly outweighed patient characteristics as determinants of first-time prescriptions for COX-2 inhibitors
- 31 January 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Vol. 58 (1) , 98-102
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.06.002
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