Knowledge of proprietary and generic drug names among hospital prescribers: time to mandate generic prescribing?

Title: Knowledge of proprietary and generic drug names among hospital prescribers: time to mandate generic prescribing?
Creator: Davis, Joshua S.; Barrett, Thomas; Harris, Lisa
Relation: Internal Medicine Journal Vol. 47, Issue 8, p. 959-962
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.13506
Publisher: Wiley
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: Although medical students are taught clinical pharmacology using generic drug names, prescribing in hospitals often uses brand names. As a result, junior doctors may be prescribing drugs without knowing their nature or mode of action. We carried out a knowledge survey of 81 medical students and doctors at a 650-bed Australian teaching hospital to assess their knowledge of common drugs when given the brand name. We identified 20 commonly prescribed drugs and their brand names based on current hospital inpatients. No participant was able to provide the generic name, class or mode of action for all 20 drugs, with an average of 8.3 of 20 and 6.3 of the 10 most common drug names correctly identified. These data support calls to mandate prescribing using generic rather than brand names of drugs in hospitals.
Subject: brand name; generic; prescribing
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1355050
Identifier: uon:31402
Identifier: ISSN:1444-0903
Language: eng
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