Open AccessPublic perception toward e-commerce of medicines and comparative pharmaceutical quality assessment study of two different products of furosemide tablets from community and illicit online pharmacies
Author(s) -
Akram Ashames,
Richie R. Bhandare,
Sham Zain AlAbdin,
Tasnim Alhalabi,
Farah Jassem
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_66_19
Subject(s) - business , counterfeit , quality (philosophy) , purchasing , pharmacy , counterfeit drugs , product (mathematics) , marketing , computer assisted web interviewing , advertising , medicine , family medicine , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , political science , law
E-commerce of medicines has been extensively spread worldwide. Many reasons influence consumers to purchase their medical needs through the Internet, including low cost, availability, accessibility, and time saving. However, most of these medicines are substandard and counterfeit.