Healthy Skepticism Library item: 8883
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Publication type: Journal Article
Generic ratio continues to climb; erythromycin moves up into 8th place
American Druggist 1972 Nov 13; 166:32-33
Abstract:
The ratio of generically written Rx’s to all Rx’s reached 9.1% in 1971, as reported by R. A. Gosselin & Co. on its National Rx audit covering 1971. A table listing the top 10 drugs prescribed in order of ranking for the past 3 years is included. The top 7 drugs prescribed are the same, in the same descending rank order, as in 1970: tetracycline, ampicillin, phenobarbital, penicillin G, prednisone, meprobamate, and digoxin. The 500 most frequently prescribed products, accounting for 85.7% of all new Rx’s in 1971, are listed.