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When patients have to pay a share of drug costs: effects on frequency of physician visits, hospital admissions and filling of prescriptions
Aslam H. Anis,
Daphne P. Guh,
Diane Lacaille,
Carlo A. Marra,
Amir A. Rashidi,
Xin Li and
John M. Esdaile
From the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology (Anis, Rashidi, Li), the Division of Rheumatology (Lacaille, Esdaile) and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Marra), University of British Columbia; the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (Anis, Guh, Rashidi, Li), St. Paul's Hospital; and the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada (Anis, Lacaille, Marra, Esdaile), Vancouver, BC