Question

How do resistance rates affect what drugs you prescribe for conjunctivitis? How are your prescribing practices affected by the pharmaceutical industries? Insurance companies?

Answer 1

1.The demand for pharmaceutical depend on consumer tastes,behaviour of physicians who prescribe these drugs and retail and hospital pharmacists who dispense the prescriptions.Resistance rate affect what drugs you prescribe for conjunctivitis because the quality of a substitute generic product is generally unknown. Physicians reluctant to choose consumer generic over brand name drugs after the patents expire and confers market power on the innovator of a new product.

2.The effect of prescription drug insurance on physicians are that prescription is now under the scrutiny of insurers. It affected prescribing patterns and reducing flexibility. The effect of prescription drug insurance on insurers are need for high volume ,low cost claims processing and need to manage drug costs.