Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 58, Issue 1 , Pages 98-102 , January 2005

A Medicare database review found that physician preferences increasingly outweighed patient characteristics as determinants of first-time prescriptions for COX-2 inhibitors

,Accepted 24 June 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.06.002

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 58, Issue 1 , Pages 98-102 , January 2005

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