Generic - equivalent drugs use in internal and general medicine patients: distrust, confusion, lack of certainties or of knowledge? Part 3. Clinical issues

Generic - equivalent drugs use in internal and general medicine patients: distrust, confusion, lack of certainties or of knowledge? Part 3. Clinical issues

There are several clinical areas or types of drugs that make prescribing branded drugs preferable, because of potential therapeutic inequivalence or confusion. Bioequivalence criteria may be fine for most drugs, but some conditions may require drug levels with modified variations, like in the case o...

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Main Authors: Roberto Nardi, Marco Masina, Giorgio Cioni, Paolo Leandri, Paola Zuccheri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2014-05-01
Series:Italian Journal of Medicine
Subjects:
generic/equivalent drugs, clinical issues, narrow therapeutic index and critical dose drugs, highly variable drugs, special subpopulations, therapeutic substitution and therapeutic interchange.
Online Access:http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/400

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