Relationship between pharmaceutical pricing strategies with price, availability, and affordability of cardiovascular disease medicines: surveys in Qatar and Lebanon

Table 5 Comparison of the median MPR between a common basket of matched pair of medicines across sectors in Qatar

	Public	Private	Public	Other	Private	Other
Number of matched medicines	17		14		14 (OB) 4 (LPG)
MPR - OB	1.77	24.11	1.89	26.71	26.71	26.71
MPR - LPG					27.92	29.72
% Difference	1264.90%		1316.90%		0.00% OB/ 6.40% LPG

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