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Potential and actual drug product selection rates in Florida. 1980

G J Vuturo, and W C McCormick, and J P Krischer

A systematic review of new prescriptions conducted 1 year after the enactment of Florida's drug product selection law showed that 36.3% were potentially subject to product interchange. Product interchange actually occurred in only 6.2% of these potentially eligible prescriptions. Positive formularies established by the pharmacies reduced the eligible population to 8.1% of all new prescriptions and the product selection rate relative to these formularies was 14.7%. Twenty drugs accounted for nearly three-fourths of all drug product selection activity.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007880	Legislation, Drug	Laws concerned with manufacturing, dispensing, and marketing of drugs.	Drug Laws,Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act,Narcotic Laws,Drug Legislation,Drug Law,Law, Drug,Law, Narcotic,Laws, Drug,Laws, Narcotic,Narcotic Law
D011307	Drug Prescriptions	Directions written for the obtaining and use of DRUGS.	Drug Prescribing,Drug Prescription,Drug Prescribings,Prescribing, Drug,Prescribings, Drug
D005431	Florida	State bounded on east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the west by Alabama and on the north by Alabama and Georgia.
D005569	Formularies as Topic	Works about lists of drugs or collections of recipes, formulas, and prescriptions for the compounding of medicinal preparations. Formularies differ from PHARMACOPEIA in that they are less complete, lacking full descriptions of the drugs, their formulations, analytic composition, chemical properties, etc. In hospitals, formularies list all drugs commonly stocked in the hospital pharmacy.
D013810	Therapeutic Equivalency	The relative equivalency in the efficacy of different modes of treatment of a disease, most often used to compare the efficacy of different pharmaceuticals to treat a given disease.	Bioequivalence,Clinical Equivalency,Equivalency, Therapeutic,Generic Equivalency,Clinical Equivalencies,Equivalencies, Clinical,Equivalencies, Therapeutic,Equivalency, Clinical,Therapeutic Equivalencies,Bioequivalences,Equivalencies, Generic,Equivalency, Generic,Generic Equivalencies