New drugs and the growth of health expenditure: evidence from diabetic patients in Taiwan - Liu, Ya-Ming; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (Health economics, 2012)
Keywords: Adult; Aged; Arzneimittel; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - drug therapy; Diabetics; Drug Costs; Drug industry; Drug Substitution - economics; Drugs; Female; Gesundheitskosten; Health; Health care expenditures; Health costs; Health economics; health expenditure; Health Expenditures - trends; Humans; Innovation; Innovations; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical treatment; Middle Aged; Models, Econometric; new drugs; Pharmaceuticals; Pharmakologie; Prescription drugs; Regression Analysis; Studies; Taiwan; Thiazolidinediones - economics; Thiazolidinediones - therapeutic use; treatment expansion; treatment substitution; Taiwan