A CALM LOOK AT COST OF DRUGS IN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE

Cost consideration has special relevance in psychiatric practice, where the drug treatment has to be continued for long duration. On evaluating, the cost of different brand names, of the same generic drug using CIMS and MIMS (India, 1991), it was found that Cost Range and Cost Ratio varies considera...

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Autores principales: Lal, Avtar, Sharma, M.L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776090
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description Cost consideration has special relevance in psychiatric practice, where the drug treatment has to be continued for long duration. On evaluating, the cost of different brand names, of the same generic drug using CIMS and MIMS (India, 1991), it was found that Cost Range and Cost Ratio varies considerably. The Cost Ratio is more than 3 for Tab. Thioridazone 100 mg and Cap. Daxepin 75 mg. Since, the superiority of any costlier brand over the others has never been reported, and keeping in view the financial aspect of prescribing the cheapest of the brand available should be prescribed, whenever possible.
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spelling pubmed-29809752011-07-20 A CALM LOOK AT COST OF DRUGS IN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE Lal, Avtar Sharma, M.L. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Cost consideration has special relevance in psychiatric practice, where the drug treatment has to be continued for long duration. On evaluating, the cost of different brand names, of the same generic drug using CIMS and MIMS (India, 1991), it was found that Cost Range and Cost Ratio varies considerably. The Cost Ratio is more than 3 for Tab. Thioridazone 100 mg and Cap. Daxepin 75 mg. Since, the superiority of any costlier brand over the others has never been reported, and keeping in view the financial aspect of prescribing the cheapest of the brand available should be prescribed, whenever possible. Medknow Publications 1992 /pmc/articles/PMC2980975/ /pubmed/21776090 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full A CALM LOOK AT COST OF DRUGS IN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE
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