The substitution is a \u00abmedical act\u00bb, because \u00abthere may exist "medical" reasons for which the prescriber prefers to continue the therapy with a particular specialty\u00bb. This was written by Aifa, in the editorial of the latest issue of its drug information bulletin. And it is a stance that is attracting the applause of a large part of family medicine, within which a debate on the subject of substitutability in the pharmacy has been underway for several months. But in its editorial, Aifa also intervenes on the most recurring topics in the not yet dormant disputes on the quality and bioequivalence of generics, establishing what for the Agency are the points beyond discussion. First: the purity and quality of the raw materials are certified with identical procedures, whether we are dealing with "branded" or "off patent" drugs. Second: even the controls on manufacturing procedures are the same for all medicines. And then \u2013 is the final reflection of AIFA \u2013 the difference in price between designer and generic does not derive from savings on quality standards, pag. 3 <\/p>\n
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La sostituzione è un «atto medico», perché «possono sussistere ragioni "mediche" per le quali il precrittore preferisce continuare la terapia con una particolare specialità ». A scriverlo è l’Aifa, nell’editoriale dell’ultimo numero del suo Bollettino di informazione dei farmaci. Ed è una presa di posizione che sta suscitando il plauso di una buona parte della …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}