A study of knowledge, attitude, and practice on generic drugs among teaching faculties at a tertiary care teaching hospital in South Gujarat, India

[...]generic medicines in the past have been criticized for being substandard mainly due to poor adherence with good manufacturing practice guidelines. [...]our Government has taken some important steps to enable a key objective of ensuring availability of quality medicines at affordable prices to all. According to one report of 2014 in the US, generic drugs saved 214 billion dollars and from this 51% saved from commercially insured patients by medical insurance. [...]patient can choose the drugs according to their affordability. [...]although the majority of faculties were found to have a greater trust, good knowledge, and good attitude for generic drugs, overall response rates were low in terms of prescribing generic drugs and majority of them have never switch a patient on innovator drug to available generic counterpart.