Tag: bioequivalence

Patients often hesitate to take generic medications due to misconceptions about effectiveness and appearance. Pharmacists can significantly improve acceptance by using evidence-based communication strategies like Ask-Tell-Ask, personalized endorsements, and visual aids. Proven techniques increase compliance, reduce costs, and build lasting trust.

Population pharmacokinetics uses real-world patient data to prove drug equivalence across diverse populations, replacing outdated methods that relied on healthy volunteers. It's now the gold standard for biosimilars, narrow therapeutic index drugs, and special populations.