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Vol. 116. Issue 11.
Pages 416-417 (January 2001)
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Vol. 116. Issue 11.
Pages 416-417 (January 2001)
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Prescripción de especialidades farmacéuticas genéricas en informes de alta de un hospital universitario
Prescription of generic pharmaceutic specialities in discharge reports from a university hospital
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Leopoldo Muñoz Medina
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nortego@hsc.sas.cica.es

Dr. L. Muñoz Medina. Servicio de Medicina Interna B. Hospital Clínico Universitario San Cecilio. Avda. Madrid 16. 18012 Granada.
, Norberto Ortego Centeno, Jesús Canora Lebrato, Jorge Parra Ruiz, Francisco Javier Gómez Jiménez, José de la Higuera Torres-Puchol
Servicio de Medicina Interna B. Hospital Clínico Universitario San Cecilio. Granada
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Fundamento

La utilización de especialidades farmacéuticas genéricas (EFG) ha emergido en los últimos años como una herramienta necesaria para el control del gasto sanitario. Nuestro objetivo fue conocer su perfil de utilización al alta de pacientes ingresados en un hospital universitario.

Material Y Método

Análisis de 256 informes, recogidos al azar, correspondientes a 8 servicios diferentes, durante junio y julio del 2000.

Resultados

De 1.233 prescripciones existía alguna EFG para 220 (18%), pero sólo se indicó en el 2,2% de los casos. El coste de los medicamentos con genérico fue de 707.521 pts., que podría haber sido de 505.865 pts. calculando el precio promedio de los genéricos posibles o de 479.672 pts. considerando los más económicos.

Conclusiones

Existen EFG para una proporción no desdeñable de los medicamentos que se prescriben. No obstante, su utilización no es una práctica habitual de los médicos hospitalarios.

Palabras Clave:
Medicamentos genéricos
Prescripción
Costes
Background

The use of generic pharmaceutic specialities (GPS) has risen lately as a necessary tool in the control of sanitary expenses. This use is becoming of high importance, even in the non-medical media. Our aim was to stablish its use profile in patients discharged from a University Hospital.

Material and Method

To analyse the use of GPS in 256 discharge reports, randomly chosen from the Clinical Documentation Service, belonging to eight different Units for two months (June-July 2000).

Results

A total of 1233 prescriptions were reported. Among them, there was an equivalent generic drug to the medication prescribed in 220 cases (18%), but only in five ocasions one of them was indicated (2.2%). The cost of the drugs with an equivalent form in GPS was calculated in 707,521 pts. This cost could have been reduced to 505,865 pts. taking into account the average price of the GPS. In case of indicating the cheapest one, the cost could have been 479,672 pts.

Conclusions

There is an important proportion of GPS to indicate as an alternative to the usual medicaments prescribed. However, nowadays, the GPS prescription is not a usual practice among the hospital physicians.

Key words:
Generic drugs
Prescription
Costs

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