Assessing Practitioner Attitudes Towards the Role of Pharmacists in Therapeutic Alternate and Pharmaceutical Alternate Substitution.
Abstract
Today every state allows some form of generic drug substitution. Satisfied with what was accomplished with generic drugs, pharmacy leaders are looking to further extend pharmacy's authority by suggesting that pharmacists be allowed to substitute therapeutic and/or pharmaceutical alternate drug products on prescription orders. Therapeutic Alternates are drug products containing different therapeutic moieties but which are of the same pharmacological class and/or therapeutic class that can be expected to have similar therapeutic effects when administered to patients in therapeutically equivalent doses. Pharmaceutical Alternates are drug products which contain the same therapeutic moiety and strength but differ in the salt, ester or dosage form, and are administered by the same route. These forms of substitution evoke an even greater disparity of opinion and controversy between pharmacists, physicians, and industry representatives than did generic substitution. Without question, legalization of therapeutic alternate substitution would have significant economic and social consequences for everyone involved.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA145401
Entities
People
- R. D. Wetherington
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology