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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 969343, 6 pages doi:10.1093/ecam/nep023 Original Article Allopathic versus Homeopathic Strategies and the Recurrence of Prescriptions: Results from a Pharmacoeconomic Study in Italy Andrea Basili,1 Francesco Lagona,2 Paolo Roberti di Sarsina,3 Corallina Basili,1 and Teresa Valeria Paterna1 1 Italian Society of Anthroposophic Medicine, Department of Public Institutions, Economy and Society, University of Roma Tre and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rome, Italy 2 Department of Public Institutions, Economy and Society, University of Roma Tre, Via G. Chiabrera 199 - 00146 Rome, Italy 3 Expert for CAM, Italian High Council of Health, Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Francesco Lagona, lagona@uniroma3.it Received 21 July 2008; Accepted 3 March 2009 Copyright © 2011 Andrea Basili et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is a pharmaeconomic study to assess the impact of different, cost-specific pharmacological strategies on the recurrence rate of prescriptions in the treatment of cold symptoms. Data were obtained from a prospective cohort study reporting individual prescriptions histories of subjects experiencing cold symptoms, obtained by a stratified random sample of 316 subjects, clustered into 139 Italian families, followed up for 40 months. Costs of homeopathic and allopathic treatments were recorded within each prescription. A Cox proportional hazards model with random effects was exploited to regress time elapsed between subsequent p