Price versus clinical guidelines in primary care statin prescribing: a retrospective cohort study and cost simulation model
CONCLUSIONS: There is potential for large savings for the NHS if new and, whenever possible, ongoing patients are promptly switched to the first medicine that becomes available as generic within a therapeutic class as long as it has similar efficacy to still-patented medicines.PMID:34793261 | DOI:10.1177/01410768211051713
Source: J R Soc Med AND (has... - Category: General Medicine Authors: Matias Ortiz De Zarate Emmanouil Mentzakis Simon Ds Fraser Paul Roderick Paul Rutter Carmine Ornaghi Source Type: research
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