title: Impact of education by clinical pharmacists on physician ambulatory care prescribing of generic versus brand-name drugs.
abstract: The physician prescribing of generic versus brand-name drugs to ambulatory care patients was compared between the time periods before and after rendering clinical pharmacist education. Copies of all written outpatient prescriptions were used for the comparison. Physicians significantly increased their generic prescribing after clinical pharmacist education.
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Practice, Idaho State University, Pocatello 83209.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Erramouspe
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D010595:Pharmacists; D010606:Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee; D010820:Physicians; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency