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Public knowledge, perception, and experience with generic medications in Saudi Arabia

Omar A. Almohammed, Leen A. Aldwihi and Abdullah A. Alhifany
Saudi Medical Journal April 2020, 41 (4) 413-420; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.4.24992
Omar A. Almohammed
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almohammed, Aldwihi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, and from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alhifany), College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University Makkah, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Leen A. Aldwihi
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almohammed, Aldwihi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, and from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alhifany), College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University Makkah, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Abdullah A. Alhifany
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almohammed, Aldwihi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, and from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alhifany), College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University Makkah, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 41 no. 4 413-420
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.4.24992
PubMed 
32291429

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 14, 2019
  • Accepted February 4, 2020
  • Published online April 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Omar A. Almohammed, PharmD, PhD⇑,
  2. Leen A. Aldwihi, PharmD candidate and
  3. Abdullah A. Alhifany, PharmD
  1. From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Almohammed, Aldwihi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, and from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Alhifany), College of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University Makkah, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Omar A. Almohammed, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: oalmohammed{at}ksu.edu.sa ORCID ID: http://www.orchid.org/0000-0002-3792-4106
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