Healthy Skepticism Library item: 9460

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Publication type: Journal Article

Conlan MF.
After the storm: has the scandal shaken your confidence?
Drug Topics 1991 Jun 17; 135:40-42, 44

Abstract:

The results of a survey of 646 community pharmacists concerning their confidence in generic drugs are presented. Results indicate that confidence in therapeutic efficacy and profit realizations in generic prescriptions is high among pharmacists but not as widespread among physicians and patients, that there are some drugs for which pharmacists will never substitute a generic and that a company’s reputation and quality of products were the top reasons pharmacists selected a generic supplier.