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Medicine quality, physicians, and patients 

Medicine quality, physicians, and patients
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Medicine quality, physicians, and patients
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Paul N. Newton

DOI:
10.1093/med/9780198746690.003.0016
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date: 27 February 2021

Poor-quality medicines negate the enormous advantages of modern pharmaceuticals and lead to avoidable morbidity and mortality; loss of confidence in medicines and healthcare systems; economic losses for patients, their families, governments, and the pharmaceutical industry; and—for anti-infectives—engender pathogen drug resistance.

There are many examples of both falsified (due to fraudulent production) and substandard (due to in-factory negligence) medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests, and devices. New portable diagnostic devices offer hope that they could empower medicine inspectors and pharmacists to obtain objective evidence for selection of suspicious samples for formal analysis. Much greater international effort is needed for the reporting of poor-quality medicines so that detection can be acted upon and patients protected.

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