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Generic and therapeutic substitution: ethics meets health economics

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  1. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Research Centre for Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmaco-economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Onderwijs en Navorsing 2, Herestraat 49, P.O. Box 521, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

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The author holds the EGA chair ‘European policy towards generic medicines’.

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Simoens, S. Generic and therapeutic substitution: ethics meets health economics. Int J Clin Pharm 33, 469–470 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11096-011-9500-7

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