title: [Generic medications and prescription by non-proprietary name].
abstract: Complementarily to a previous publication, this paper tries to answer a few commonly asked questions about--generic medications: pharmaceutical quality, bioequivalence and therapeutic equivalence, substitution, etc. A summary of recent regulations about reference price and prescription by non-proprietary name, aiming at the promotion of generic medication prescription is also presented.
authors.affiliation: Département de Pharmacie, Université de Liège, Belgique. jpdelporte@ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Delporte
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Delattre
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Herné
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards*; D016568:Drugs, Generic; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency
chemical_list: D016568:Drugs, Generic