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Physicians’ perception of generic and electronic prescribing: A descriptive study from Jordan

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate Jordanian physicians’ perception and attitudes toward generic medicines and generic substitution. It also aimed to examine factors that affect physicians’ pattern of prescribing, and to evaluate their opinion regarding future introduction of Elect...

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Autores principales: El-Dahiyat, Faris, Kayyali, Reem, Bidgood, Penelope
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25848547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-3211-7-7
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description OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate Jordanian physicians’ perception and attitudes toward generic medicines and generic substitution. It also aimed to examine factors that affect physicians’ pattern of prescribing, and to evaluate their opinion regarding future introduction of Electronic Prescribing (EP) in Jordan. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive study involving Jordanian physicians working in both public and private sectors was undertaken, using a self-administrated anonymous questionnaire. Frequency tables, cross-tabulation and chi square tests were used for data analysis. The response rate was 75.2% (n = 376/500). RESULTS: Cost was claimed to be an important factor in the prescribing decision for 69.1% of the Jordanian physicians. The majority of physicians (77.4%) claimed that they often prescribe generic medicines. Jordanian physicians predominantly welcomed the implementation of an EP and International Nonproprietary Name (INN) prescribing systems with 92%, and 80.1% respectively. More than two thirds of the physicians (69.4%) accepted generic substitution by pharmacists, with a significant association with their employment sector; physicians who work in the private sector tended to oppose generic substitution compared with physicians who work in the public sector. Physicians mostly (72.1%) opposed that generic substitution should only be allowed upon patient request. CONCLUSIONS: Jordanian physicians have a positive attitude towards generic medications and high willingness and acceptance of strategies that encourage generic utilisation such as EP, INN prescribing and generic substitution. All these strategies would help reduce the high expenditure on medicines in Jordan. These findings would provide baseline data to policy makers to develop a robust generic policy to achieve greater clinical effectiveness and economic efficiency from medicines prescribing.
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spelling pubmed-43669432015-04-06 Physicians’ perception of generic and electronic prescribing: A descriptive study from Jordan El-Dahiyat, Faris Kayyali, Reem Bidgood, Penelope J Pharm Policy Pract Research OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate Jordanian physicians’ perception and attitudes toward generic medicines and generic substitution. It also aimed to examine factors that affect physicians’ pattern of prescribing, and to evaluate their opinion regarding future introduction of Electronic Prescribing (EP) in Jordan. METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive study involving Jordanian physicians working in both public and private sectors was undertaken, using a self-administrated anonymous questionnaire. Frequency tables, cross-tabulation and chi square tests were used for data analysis. The response rate was 75.2% (n = 376/500). RESULTS: Cost was claimed to be an important factor in the prescribing decision for 69.1% of the Jordanian physicians. The majority of physicians (77.4%) claimed that they often prescribe generic medicines. Jordanian physicians predominantly welcomed the implementation of an EP and International Nonproprietary Name (INN) prescribing systems with 92%, and 80.1% respectively. More than two thirds of the physicians (69.4%) accepted generic substitution by pharmacists, with a significant association with their employment sector; physicians who work in the private sector tended to oppose generic substitution compared with physicians who work in the public sector. Physicians mostly (72.1%) opposed that generic substitution should only be allowed upon patient request. CONCLUSIONS: Jordanian physicians have a positive attitude towards generic medications and high willingness and acceptance of strategies that encourage generic utilisation such as EP, INN prescribing and generic substitution. All these strategies would help reduce the high expenditure on medicines in Jordan. These findings would provide baseline data to policy makers to develop a robust generic policy to achieve greater clinical effectiveness and economic efficiency from medicines prescribing. BioMed Central 2014-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4366943/ /pubmed/25848547 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-3211-7-7 Text en Copyright © 2014 El-Dahiyat et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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title_full Physicians’ perception of generic and electronic prescribing: A descriptive study from Jordan
title_fullStr Physicians’ perception of generic and electronic prescribing: A descriptive study from Jordan
title_full_unstemmed Physicians’ perception of generic and electronic prescribing: A descriptive study from Jordan
title_short Physicians’ perception of generic and electronic prescribing: A descriptive study from Jordan
title_sort physicians’ perception of generic and electronic prescribing: a descriptive study from jordan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25848547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-3211-7-7
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