Abstract：
BACKGROUND:The growth of pharmaceutical expenditure and patients' out of pocket has motivated policy makers to encourage patients to substitution of brands medicines with their generic alternatives called generic substitution. OBJECTIVES:As the patients are final decision makers to accept generic substitution, the aim of this study is to evaluate the patient perception about generic medicines and underlying factors which can promote the generic acceptance. SETTING:The study was done in community pharmacies in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. METHOD:A cross-sectional descriptive study inviting people purchasing their drug at community pharmacies were per-formed using a self-administrated anonymous questionnaire (N=1309). MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES:Besides the demographic section, 16 items of developed questionnaire were categorized to five main factors including: patients' perception about efficiency, safety and cost of generic medicines, patient trust on physicians and pharmacists' advice. RESULTS:Findings of completed questionnaires showed among the aforementioned factors the physician has the first priority to encourage patients to use of generics medicines which followed respectively by pharmacist's role, cost of medicines, efficacy, and safety concerns. CONCLUSION:In conclusion, the trust of Iranian's society on the physicians and pharmacists advice would create a credible opportunity to reduce pharmaceutical expenditures as well as patients' out of pocket by promotion of generic substitution.
journal_name
Int J Clin Pharmjournal_title
International journal of clinical pharmacyauthors
Yousefi N,Mehralian G,Peiravian F,NourMohammadi Sdoi
10.1007/s11096-015-0085-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-06-01 00:00:00pages
497-503issue
3eissn
2210-7703issn
2210-7711journal_volume
37pub_type
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