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. 2016 Jun 1;176(6):847-8.
doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.1691.

Generic Medication Prescription Rates After Health System-Wide Redesign of Default Options Within the Electronic Health Record

Mitesh S Patel  1 , Susan C Day  2 , Scott D Halpern  2 , C William Hanson  2 , Joseph R Martinez  2 , Steven Honeywell Jr  2 , Kevin G Volpp  1
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Generic Medication Prescription Rates After Health System-Wide Redesign of Default Options Within the Electronic Health Record

Mitesh S Patel et al. JAMA Intern Med. .
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Figure.
Figure.. Percentage of Medications Prescribed as Generic by Drug Class and Month.
Data presented is percent of medications prescribed as generic by month from January 2014 to June 2015 for each of the represented drug classes. Vertical grey line represents the intervention in mid-November.
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