Price, familiarity, and availability determine the choice of drug - a population-based survey five years after generic substitution was introduced in Finland

BACKGROUND: Mandatory generic substitution (GS) was introduced in Finland at the beginning of April 2003. However, individual patients or physicians may forbid the substitution. GS was a significant change for Finnish medicine users. It was thought it would confuse people when the names, colors, pac...

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Autores principales: Heikkilä, Reeta, Mäntyselkä, Pekka, Ahonen, Riitta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3262749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22171800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6904-11-20

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3262749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22171800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6904-11-20

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