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Generic medicines literacy — minimising the potential for patient confusion
Author(s) -
McLachlan Andrew J
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03555.x
Subject(s) - literacy , confusion , pharmacy , library science , sociology , medicine , psychology , computer science , family medicine , pedagogy , psychoanalysis
For generic substitution to be safe, consumers and clinicians need to fully understand what is the same or different about various brands of the same medicine.