Department of Pharmaceutics, ISF College of Pharmacy, India
Research Article
Cost Variation Analysis of Oral Anti-Diabetic Drugs Currently Available in the
Indian Pharmaceutical Market.
Author(s): Khadga Raj Aran*, Shamsher Singh and G.D. Gupta
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic condition that affects millions of people throughout the globe and are expected to take medicines for a longer time and even medicines for a lifetime are often needed to treat this disease. Costly branding of pharmaceuticals supplied in these circumstances adds to the burden of disease and may even result in therapeutic nonadherence. Thus, the research work was designed to determine the cost of anti-diabetic medicine from various brands. The cost of different brands of anti-diabetic medicines was calculated by referring to the Indian Depository Receipt (IDR). The cost of each brand 7 tablets in Indian rupee (INR), cost ratio, and percentage cost variance were also determined. The difference between the highest and lowest cost of the same drug produced by various pharmaceutical companies was measured, and percentage variance was also calculated in co.. View More»
DOI:
10.37533/ npcr.22.10.2.1-3.
