Jönsson, Bengt; Carlsson, Per - In: Social Science & Medicine 33 (1991) 3, pp. 275-282
The economic impact of the drug cimetidine on the direct and indirect costs of ulcer disease was studied. Cimetidine appeared on the Swedish market in 1978. Unlike other innovations, whose spread is normally slow during the initial period, cimetidine was introduced very swiftly and its use...