Coping with increasing medicine costs through greater adoption of generic prescribing and dispensing in Pakistan as an exemplar country

Saad Abdullah¹, Zikria Saleem¹, Brian Godman^{2

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¹ Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
² Department of Public Health Pharmacy and Management, School of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Garankuwa, Pretoria, South Africa.
³ Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

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Saad Abdullah et al. Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res. 2024 Feb.

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doi: 10.1080/14737167.2023.2280802. Epub 2024 Jan 25.

Saad Abdullah¹, Zikria Saleem¹, Brian Godman^{2

3}

¹ Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
² Department of Public Health Pharmacy and Management, School of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Garankuwa, Pretoria, South Africa.
³ Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

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Keywords: Generics; Health Policies; International Non-proprietary Name; Pakistan; Pharmacists; Pricing.

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