2023
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.08.23296708
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A randomised survey of the quality of antibiotics and other essential medicines in Indonesia, with volume-adjusted estimates of the prevalence of substandard medicines

Elizabeth Pisani,
Ayu Rahmawati,
Esti Mulatsari
et al.

Abstract: IntroductionMost substandard and falsified medicines are at best not optimally effective, and at worst fatal. While the World Health Organisation and others warn they are a major threat to public health in low and middle income countries, little is known about their true prevalence. Authors of meta-analyses universally warn that survey data are not generalisable, because of unrepresentative study designs and variations in medicines included; tests performed; reference standards and pharmacopeia used; and defin… Show more

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“…Full details of quality testing are reported elsewhere, and the sample-level data with all laboratory results are available in the study archive. 33,34 Here we focus on the relationship between price and quality. Of the 1,088 samples included in the quality analysis, 84 failed any pharmacopeial test, for an unweighted prevalence of 7.7% outof-specification samples.…”
Section: Price and Qualitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Full details of quality testing are reported elsewhere, and the sample-level data with all laboratory results are available in the study archive. 33,34 Here we focus on the relationship between price and quality. Of the 1,088 samples included in the quality analysis, 84 failed any pharmacopeial test, for an unweighted prevalence of 7.7% outof-specification samples.…”
Section: Price and Qualitymentioning
confidence: 99%