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PageCHAPTER 3: LITERATURE REVIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Prescription Drug Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106DTCA Expenditures: Review <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . . . . . 108GAO Report: Review <strong>of</strong> Studies from 1997 . . . . . . . . . . 108DTCA Expenditures and Related Studies. . . . . . . . . . . 109DTCA and Prescription Drug Expenditures . . . . . . . . . . 113DTCA and Physician Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115DTCA and Utilization <strong>of</strong> Prescription Drugs . . . . . . . . . . 117DTCA Expenditures and its Impact on Sales and Market Share . . . . 121Summary <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Access to Care: Review <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 127Access to Care and Prescription Drug Expenditures . . . . . . . . 127Access to Care and Physician Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Access to Care and Utilization <strong>of</strong> Prescription Drugs . . . . . . . 135Summary <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Demographics: Age and Gender: Review <strong>of</strong> the Literature. . . . . . . 140Demographics (Age and Gender) and Prescription Drug Expenditures . . . 140Demographics (Age and Gender) and Physician Visits . . . . . . . 146Demographics (Age and Gender) and Utilization <strong>of</strong> Prescription Drugs. . . 153Summary <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Utilization <strong>of</strong> Prescription Drugs: Review <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . 164Utilization <strong>of</strong> Prescription Drugs and Physician Visits . . . . . . . 164Summary <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Physician Visits: Review <strong>of</strong> the Literature . . . . . . . . . . . 167Physician Visits and Prescription Drug Expenditures . . . . . . . 167Rationale for Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168x

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