A Guide to Generics

How do innovator and generic drugs reach the market?; What is pharmaceutical equivalence?; What is therapeutic equivalence?; How should we make the switch?; Know when to say when; AO; AP; Alan Marco, MD, MMM What; Application; Bioequivalence Ratings The FDA; Brand; Brand Y. Fentanyl; Clinicians; Determine; Diprivan; Drug Application; EDTA; Excipients; FDA; FDA-mandated; Fentanyl; Find; GPO; Generally Recognized Safe; Generic; Good Manufacturing Practice; MD, MMM What; MMM What; Managers; Manufacturers; Manufacturing Practice; Marco, MD, MMM What; Patient-response; Pharmaceutical; Pharmacy; Practice; Ratings The FDA; Recognized Safe; Safe; Sublimaze; Switching; TIVA; Therapeutic; Understand; Versed; Y. Fentanyl; accept; active; actual; adequately; adjust; administer; administered; administration; administrators; aerosol; affect; affected; ago; agree; alienating; allergies; allergy; ambulatory; amount; analyze; and/or; anesthesia; anesthesiologist; anesthetic; announce; appeared; applicable; approach; approved; approves; aqueous; area; asthmatics; avoid; benefits; best-price; bias; biased; binder; bioequivalence; bisulfate; brand; brand-name; branded; care; carefully; carries; carrying; case; ceiling; centered; challenges; change; characteristics; cheaper; chronic; clinical; clinically; clinicians; colleagues; combination; committee; commodities; commodity; common; companies; compared; complain; completely; compliance; components; concerned; concerns; consensus; continue; controversy; copies; cost; cost-saver; cost-saving; costs; current; cyclosporine; data; deliver; delivering; denote; depending; depends; designations; desired; determined; develop; development; differ; difference; differently; discuss; dismiss; dispense-as-written; dissolves; do's; dock; doctors; don'ts; dosage; dose; downward; dropped; drug; drug-supply; drugs; early; economic; effect; effects; encounter; encountered; epinephrine; equivalence; equivalent; establish; establishing; evaluate; excipients; exclusivity; expending; expertise; expiration; expires; extended-release; facilities; facility; fall; familiarity; feelings; fentanyl; file; finally; find; five-step; flavors; form; formula; formulary; formulation; formulations; found; fraction; freely; frequently; friendly; fundamental; gain; general; generic; generic-formulation; generics; great; greater; half; handling; happy; high; high-volume; hit; identify; important; impression; inactive; include; including; index; individually; ingredient; ingredients; injectable; innovator; innovator-drug; interchange; investigated; involve; involving; issuance; issue; justify; keeping; kind; label; label-name; labeled; labeling; leader; leaving; legitimate; levels; list; loading; local; lower-cost; major; make; making; manner; manufacturer; market; matter; means; mechanism; medical; medication; meets; midazolam; misinformed; money; months; morphine; mystery; names; narcotics; narrower; neostigmine; neutral; no-name; non-formulary; non-injectable; observer; obtain; obtained; obtaining; oil; opinion; option; orally; order; outweigh; overheated; paid; part; pass; patent; patient; pay; paying; peddled; peer; perceived; percent; pharmaceutical; pharmaceutically; pharmacy; physician; pill; plan; population; possibilities; potency; potential; potentially; pre-date; pre-op; preparation; prescribe; preservative; preservatives; pressure; previous; price; pricing; problem; problems; process; products; propofol; protection; prove; public; put; quality; quickly; race; raise; range; rarely; rated; reach; reaches; reaching; read; realized; reason; recall; receives; recommend; recoups; reduced; refers; regimens; release; reluctant; remains; remifentanil; replace; research; resistance; resolve; resources; reviews; rigorous; risk; routes; runs; safe; safety; sales; save; saving; scoring; screening; sense; shortage; show; side; significant; sitting; small; smooth; solved; specialties; specific; speculated; spinal; stability; staff; standards; stemmed; strong; strongly; structure; studies; succinylcholine; sulfite; summer; supplier; supplies; support; surgeon; suspected; sweltering; switch; switched; switching; tells; test; therapeutic; therapeutically; three-and-a-half; thyroid; time; topically-administered; transition; true; turnover; type; typically; undergo; understand; undesirable; variations; vary; varying; vehicles; versus; veto; vial; view; vitro; vivo; volume; volume-pricing; warfarin; wide; works; worry; wound; years