Aladul, MI, Fitzpatrick, RW and Chapman, SR (2018) Healthcare professionals' perceptions and perspectives on biosimilar medicines and the barriers and facilitators to their prescribing in UK: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 8 (11). e023603 - ?. ISSN 2044-6055

[thumbnail of S Chapman - Healthcare professionals perceptions and perspectives....pdf]
Preview
Text
S Chapman - Healthcare professionals perceptions and perspectives....pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial.

Download (245kB) | Preview

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate UK healthcare professionals' perceptions and perspectives towards biosimilar infliximab, etanercept and insulin glargine and the potential barriers and facilitators to their prescribing. DESIGN: A cross-sectional qualitative study design was used. SETTING: Five hospitals within the West Midlands area in UK. INTERVENTIONS: 30 min face-to-face, semistructured interviews of healthcare professionals. PARTICIPANTS: 22 healthcare professionals (consultants, nurses and pharmacists) participated in the semistructured interviews. OUTCOMES: Participants' opinion and attitudes about biosimilars and the barriers and facilitators to the prescribing of infliximab, etanercept and insulin glargine biosimilars in gastroenterology, rheumatology and diabetology specialties. RESULTS: This study showed that UK healthcare professionals had good knowledge of biosimilars and were content to initiate them. Healthcare professionals disagreed with biosimilar auto-substitution at pharmacy level and multiple switching. Subtle differences among healthcare professionals were identified in the acceptance of switching stable patients, indication extrapolation and cost savings sharing. CONCLUSION: Safety and efficacy concerns, patients' opinion and how cost savings were shared were the identified barriers to considering prescribing biosimilars. Real-life data and financial incentives were the suggested facilitators to increase biosimilar utilisation.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
Subjects: R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Pharmacy
Related URLs:
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 26 Nov 2018 12:39
Last Modified: 26 Nov 2018 12:39
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/5529

Actions (login required)

View Item
View Item