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AIMS: Estimate primary care doctor´s knowledge and attitudes towards generic drugs and their impact on pharmacological cost. METHODOS: Desing: Observacional study. Subjects: 98 primary care doctor´s (confidence level: 95%, precisión: 0.09) No-random sample. Variables: doctors knowledge and attitudes about generic drugs: self-administered questionnarie (15 question): generic drug notion according to european pattern; authorisation mechanism in our pharmacopea; commercialization characteristics; doctor-pharmacist relations; impact on pharmacological cost; Doctors variables (age, gender, working place, posgraduate education, task profile). RESULTS: 56.1% Male; 84.7% Family doctors; 88.8% always use medical records. 92 doctors working in health centers; 85 work in urban areas. Questionnaire results: Knowledge (5 questions): 80% doctors know the concept of generic drug and the commercialization characteristics; 50% showed disagreement with the authorisation mechanisms in our pharmacopea. Attitudes (7 questions): 90% showed disagreement with the prescription ustitution by the pharmacist, except the existence of a sustitution catalogue supervised by doctors in the pharmacy (84.5% subjects). Opinion about control of pharmacological cost (3 questions): 75% showed agreement; 77% thought that besides it gets an important saving for the patient. CONCLUSIONS: Primary Care doctors showed a good level of knowledge about generic drugs and their adaptation to our Health Service. They considered them a posible measure to control of pharmacological cost. Their attitudes were unfavourable to the utilization of changes by others professionals in Primary Care.

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Poster Number PAmartos crespo0840
Keywords: Generic Drugs, primary care, attitudes