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| Title |
Impact of evergreening on patients and health insurance: a meta analysis and reimbursement cost analysis of citalopram/escitalopram antidepressants
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-10-142 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ali A Alkhafaji, Ludovic Trinquart, Gabriel Baron, Moïse Desvarieux, Philippe Ravaud |
| Abstract |
"Evergreening" refers to the numerous strategies whereby owners of pharmaceutical products use patent laws and minor drug modifications to extend their monopoly privileges on the drug. We aimed to evaluate the impact of evergreening through the case study of the antidepressant citalopram and its chiral switch form escitalopram by evaluating treatment efficacy and acceptability for patients, as well as health insurance costs for society. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 19% |
| United States | 3 | 19% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 8 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 56% |
| Scientists | 4 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 19% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 88 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 18 | 20% |
| Unknown | 14 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 31 | 35% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 9% |
| Psychology | 6 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 17 | 19% |
| Unknown | 19 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 May 2021.
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#3,325,429
of 25,809,907 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,013
of 4,095 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,588
of 287,512 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#36
of 61 outputs
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