The impact of headache specialist density and the introduction of gepants and lasmitidan on prescriptions for acute migraine treatments: a regression and interrupted time series analysis
Our study suggests increased headache provider availability is associated with more prescriptions for naratriptan, eletriptan, and almotriptan. Additionally, the introduction of the gepants and lasmiditan broadly decreased the utilization of triptans. Critically, there was a strong association between a pharmaceutical company's, Pfizer, payments to physicians and utilization of their medication, rimegepant.
Authors
- Niushen Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8869-7732)
- Rebecca Y. Linfield (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8079-700X)
- Leon Samuel Moskatel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8596-9130)
Institutions
- Palo Alto University (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Neurology
- Published
- 2025-02-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2025.1530499
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Migraine and Headache Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.47
Funders
- National Institutes of Health