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Prescription and use of “equivalent” drugs

Author(s) -

Mario Eandi

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

clinical management issues

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2283-3137

pISSN - 1973-4832

DOI - 10.7175/cmi.v1i2.611

Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , context (archaeology) , drug , legislature , generic drug , intensive care medicine , family medicine , pharmacology , law , paleontology , political science , biology

Three case reports, where an “equivalent” drugs is prescribed, are described: a patient treated with lanzoprazole, a man with acute myocardial infarction and a young man with epilepsy. These reports are emblematic of the doubts and problems that doctors have to afford in the choice of a generic drug instead of a branded drug. The Author examines not only clinical, legislative and economical aspects of prescription of generic drugs in the Italian context, but also common questions that patients may ask when a generic drug is prescribed

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