Prescribing Therapy for Hypothyroidism: Influence of Physician Characteristics.

Conclusions A previous analysis of this survey showed that patient characteristics profoundly affect physician prescribing patterns. The current multivariate analysis also shows that physician characteristics affect prescribing patterns. Whether this is due to impact upon physicians of patient-related experiences, media exposure, influence from pharmaceutical companies, educational activities, or other concerns cannot be determined. However, these results have potential importance for understanding physician-patient interactions at a time when the benefits and risks of triiodothyronine-containing therapies have not been fully documented. PMID: 30375273 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Thyroid Source Type: research