Physicians' and patients' opinions on the use of generic drugs.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. What Do Users of Generic Medicines Think of Them? A Systematic Review of Consumers' and Patients' Perceptions of, and Experiences with, Generic Medicines.The patient · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Perceptions of generic medication in the general population, doctors and pharmacists: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2015
   Pooled it
3. Treatment persistence and adherence and their consequences on patient outcomes of generic versus brand-name statins routinely used to treat high cholesterol levels in Spain: a retrospective cost-consequences analysis.Lipids in health and disease · 2018
   Article
4. Patients' beliefs about generic medicines in Malaysia.Pharmacy practice · 2014
   Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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