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Manoj Mohanan: Misperception Keeping Healthcare Providers from Prescribing Life-Saving ORS for Child Diarrhoea in India — Study
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With randomised controlled trials, the researchers tested the effects of three main reasons – misperception of providers, financial incentives and ORS stock – for under prescription of ORS. While prescribing a lucrative treatment option for financial incentives was perceived to be a barrier (5%), the results of the study suggested that eliminating the incentive (by informing the provider that the patient would purchase medicines from a different location), had no effect on prescription of ORS. When asked about the interventions that the researchers suggest to tackle the problem of under prescription of ORS, Prof.