Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2016

Cost Analysis of Antiepileptic Drugs of Different Brands Available in India.

Dr. Siddharth Banode, Dr. Ashutosh Chourishi

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 Epilepsy is a chronic disease for which patients has to take medications for a prolonged period and even sometimes lifelong medications are required to treat this disease. Costly and of medications if prescribed in such cases adds to the burden of disease and may even lead to failure of compliance of therapy. Hence the study was designed to evaluate the cost of antiepileptic drugs of different and names and to analyze price variation among various antiepileptic drugs available in Indian market. Methods: Prices of various drugs marketed by different companies was obtained from IDR. The variation between highest and lowest price of the same medication manufactured by various pharmaceutical companies and percentage variation in cost for ten tablets was calculated. Results: Cost analysis of total 17 anti epileptic drugs was done. These drugs were available in the market as 163 different formulations, manufactured by different pharmaceutical companies. Percent variation in cost was found to be highest, for the drug Carbamazepine (1100%) of which there were 22 ands followed by Acetazolamide (1037.8%), of which there were only 3 pharmaceutical ands. Lowest percent variation in cost was of Zonisamide (18.46%), with 3 pharmaceutical preparations. Conclusion: To increase the benefit on patient counterpart, generic drug prescribing or prescribing cheaper medications of same strength should be encouraged among practitioners.

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Dr. Siddharth Banode, Dr. Ashutosh Chourishi Cost Analysis of Antiepileptic Drugs of Different Brands Available in India International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 2 February 2016

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