Quantifying the impacts of volume-based procurement policy on spatial accessibility of antidepressants via generic substitution: A four-city cohort study using drug sales data

• Aoming Xue ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AX and QX contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliation School of International Business, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, China

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• Qingyuan Xue ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AX and QX contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliation School of health management, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, China

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• Jiahong Fu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Keye Fan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation School of International Business, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, China

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• Jiale Zhang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

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• Peiyan Cai,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, China Medical University, Liaoning, Shenyang, China

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• Yuanyuan Kuang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China

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• Yingsong Chen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Mongolian Medicine Research and Development, Tongliao, China

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• Jifang Zhou ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 1020202613@cpu.edu.cn (JZ); binjiang@hsc.pku.edu.cn (BJ)

  Affiliation School of International Business, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2590-8667

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• Bin Jiang

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 1020202613@cpu.edu.cn (JZ); binjiang@hsc.pku.edu.cn (BJ)

  Affiliations School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Public Policy Research Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

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