Objective. To identify all financial incentives that had been proposed, described, or used
regardless of their initial objective and, when possible, to assess the results of these …

To help account for and address observed variations in medical practice, evaluations of
“appropriateness” have sought to supplement incomplete evidence with professional …

Objective: To examine the attitude of patients towards generic drugs and prescriptions
containing generic drugs as an alternative, to brand-name products, with a special focus on …

A generic medicine is a faithful copy of a mature drug—no longer under patent—marketed
with the chemical name of the active ingredient. This article analyses generics markets in …

Sweden's pharmaceutical expenditure has increased during the last decades. On 1 October
2002 mandatory generic substitution was introduced in Sweden with the purpose to reduce …

The purpose of the study was to assess patients' acceptability of the substitution of brand-
name drugs for generic drugs in the primary health care prescribing practices for chronic …

Cost‐containment measures in healthcare provision include the implementation of
therapeutic and generic drug substitution strategies in patients whose condition is already …

Objective The objective of this paper was to undertake a narrative review of the literature
regarding strategies and interventions promoting the acceptance and uptake of generic …

Rising healthcare costs promote the generic substitution among patients because it is
identifiable costs. A key concern is that patients should be involved in the decision of …

With prescribing expenditure rising and evidence of prescribing costs variation, general
practitioners (GPs) in the UK are under increasing pressure to contain spending. The …