title: Use of generic antibiotics in children.
abstract: Most oral antibiotics have highly acceptable generic equivalents. The generic products are comparable in bioavailability, side-effect profile, and efficacy to their brand-name equivalents. Some are more palatable, and all are less costly that the trade-name products. Increased use of oral generic antibiotics will generate significant cost savings for both the patients and prescribers, without compromising therapeutic benefits.
authors.affiliation: Health Net, Clinical Pharmacy Department, Oakland, CA 94612, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tam
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000191:economics / Q000493:pharmacokinetics* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D017046:Cost Savings; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents