{"id":15926,"date":"2012-12-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/branded-vs-generic-the-saga-continues\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T09:00:00","slug":"branded-vs-generic-the-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/branded-vs-generic-the-saga-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Branded vs Generic: The Saga Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pharmacist Perspective<\/p>\n

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Laurie Scudder, DNP, NP<\/p>\n

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Nov 29, 2012 MedScapeNews<\/p>\n

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Brand-Name vs Generic Agents: The Pharmacist Experience<\/p>\n

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Pharmacists, prescribers, and patients often voice concerns about the safety and efficacy of generic drugs that are substituted for brand-name drug products. No matter where they fall on the spectrum, most clinicians, however, acknowledge that they are here to stay. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a generic substitute if it has proven to be "identical, or bioequivalent, to a brand-name drug in dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics, and intended use." <\/span>[1]<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n

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The FDA’s <\/span>Orange Book<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/i> provides the latest information on generic approvals. Approved generic agents have been demonstrated to have therapeutic equivalence — although many clinicians have questioned whether that equivalence extends to all patients and all clinical scenarios. Jenny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pharmacist Perspective Laurie Scudder, DNP, NP Nov 29, 2012 MedScapeNews Brand-Name vs Generic Agents: The Pharmacist Experience Pharmacists, prescribers, and patients often voice concerns about the safety and efficacy of generic drugs that are substituted for brand-name drug products. No matter where they fall on the spectrum, most clinicians, however, acknowledge that they are …<\/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-15926","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\/15926","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=15926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15926\/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=15926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}