Knowledge and perception about generic drugs in patients coming to OPD of tertiary care centre

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dc.contributor.authorChoulera, Mehul Y.en_US
dc.contributor.authorV., Dashputra Amrutaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBorkar, Archana S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDate, Amit P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-23T07:49:35Z
dc.date.available2020-04-23T07:49:35Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.description.abstractBackground: In an era of rapidly rising health care costs generic medicines provide a less expensive alternative to branded medicines. In addition to reducing the overall health care expenditure, it has been shown to improve adherence. Objective was to study knowledge and perception about generic drugs among patients coming to outpatient department of tertiary care centre.Methods: After ethical approval a cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted. Patients (n=71) were interviewed according to questionnaire in vernacular language by investigator to fill questionnaire.Results: About 28% people think that price of generic drug is less than a branded drug while nearly 61% of people don’t know of it. Only 18.85% participants had taken generic medicine. Trusting efficacy of generic drugs only 30 participants were in favour it. Even they have not seen or heard publicity of generic drugs (61.97%). They (60.56%) opined that generic drugs never prescribe in our country.Conclusions: Limitation in knowledge and perception about generic medicines has been seen among participants.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Pharmacology, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationChoulera Mehul Y., V. Dashputra Amruta, Borkar Archana S., Date Amit P.. Knowledge and perception about generic drugs in patients coming to OPD of tertiary care centre. International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. 2018 May; 7(5): 1024-1027en_US
dc.identifier.issn2319-2003
dc.identifier.issn2279-0780
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/199699
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMedip Academyen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber5en_US
dc.relation.volume7en_US
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20181655en_US
dc.subjectBranded drugen_US
dc.subjectCost effectivenessen_US
dc.subjectGeneric drugen_US
dc.subjectJanaushadhi storeen_US
dc.titleKnowledge and perception about generic drugs in patients coming to OPD of tertiary care centreen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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