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  • Attitudes of Slovene general practitioners towards generig drug prescribing and comparison with international studies
    Kersnik, Janko, 1960-2015 ; Peklar, Jure
    BACKGROUND: Over the recent years there has been a steady 7% yearly increase in prescribing costs, which accounts for 17% of the Slovene national health care budget. Substitution of branded products ... by generic equivalents can offersavings. General practitioners (GPs) are often concerned about the quality of generic products and possible legal liabilities associated with their use. OBJECTIVE: We wanted to examine the attitudes of GPs in Slovenia towards generic drug prescribing. METHODS: We conducted a postal survey of a random sample of 200 out of 800 GPs in Slovenia from the National Health Insurance Institute database. GPs were asked 21 questions regarding their knowledge on generic drugs, awareness of prescribing costs, prices of generic drugs relative to brand name drugs and their attitude towards use of generic drugs. RESULTS: The 117 (58.5%) replies we received represent 15% of the GP population in Slovenia. 66.1% of GPs considered rising costs of medicines to be a serious problem for the health care budget. Each week, over 50% of GPs experienced demands from patients for specific drugs and the majority of GPs usually met their patientsć demands or requests from hospital consultants for branded products. 38.3% of GPs did not take price into consideration when prescribing drugs. The majority of GPs (88.9%) perceived generics to have the same effectiveness as branded drugs. One quarter of GPs would prescribe more generics if additional clinical trials were presented. 37.3% would follow advice of academic detailers and 30.3% expected the generics to be even cheaper than they were. Independent detailing was welcomed by 63.8% of GPs because of the big influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the prescribinghabits. 15.5% thought that the industry had a tremendous impact on their prescribing patterns. CONCLUSIONS: Slovene GPs are aware of the cost of prescribed drugs. They are willing to accept independent academic detailing toimprove their prescribing and are willing to increase generic drugs under certain conditions.
    Vir: Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics. - ISSN 0269-4727 (Vol. 31, no. 6, 2006, str. 577-583)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2006
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 28174597

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