Factors Influencing Prescribing Perceived Utility of Drugs: Experiences from Iraqi Kurdistan.

ABSTRACT: Pharmaceutical expenditures have increased dramatically in most developed and developing countries in recent decades. Healthcare system policymakers have expressed concerns about the inappropriate, irrational, or harmful prescribing of drugs. The attitudes of physicians towards prescribing generic drugs and predictors of perceived utility of drugs were investigated in the present study. In this cross-sectional research, 77 physicians at different levels of job hierarchies, working in various public sector shifts, were recruited to participate in a survey of their attitudes toward prescribing generic drugs in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2018. The doctors were located in a general, an emergency, and a pediatric hospital. A self-administered structured questionnaire was designed based on the extended

SUBMITTER: Abdulah DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8051892 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature