The trade name of a drug is a product name determined by a pharmaceutical manufacturer and approved by the pharmaceutical supervisory and administrative department. It is proprietary and cannot be copied. Under a common name, there may be multiple commodity names due to different manufacturers.
The generic name of drugs is the legal name of drugs formulated by Pharmacopoeia Committee according to the principle of naming generic names of drugs and reported to the Ministry of Health for the record. It is the generic name of drugs with the same ingredient or formula in China, which is mandatory and binding. Therefore, generic names must be used on the labels, instructions or packages of drugs listed and circulated, and their naming should conform to the provisions of the Principles for Naming Generic Names of Drugs, and cannot be used for trademark registration.
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Advantages of implementing generic drug names;
1, which is beneficial to improve the quality of drugs.
Paying attention to the generic names of drugs can make drug manufacturers no longer be burdened by drug trade names, no longer focus on the change of drug packaging and drug trade names, and will not spare no effort to declare "new drugs". Their production will focus on the production of drugs, and they will pay more attention to the improvement of dosage forms and the quality of drugs.
2. It is beneficial to reduce the drug burden of patients.
The Prescription Management Measures, which came into effect on May 1 2007, stipulates that doctors must use the generic names of drugs when making prescriptions. If patients choose drugs with different prices independently according to their actual situation, they can protect patients' rights and interests to a great extent, help to change the strange phenomenon that "new" drugs and high-priced drugs are popular, and drugs with definite curative effect and low price are ignored, thus reducing patients' drug burden.
3. Conducive to curbing all kinds of corruption.
Paying more attention to the use of generic names in the process of drug production, circulation and use can eliminate the "rent-seeking" condition of drug examination and approval departments, reduce the "pricing income" of drug production enterprises, avoid the phenomenon of "big prescription" in hospitals and drug sales kickbacks, standardize pharmaceutical affairs management and stabilize the order of drug market.
4. It is beneficial to break the monopoly of hospital pharmacy.
The sales of drugs in China hospitals account for more than 80% of the market share. Drugs in hospital prescriptions are given generic names, and patients can buy the drugs they need in social pharmacies, which is conducive to breaking the monopoly of hospital pharmacies and promoting fair competition in drug sales terminals in China?
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Generic Names of Drugs