Tell me the whole story: the role of product labelling in building user confidence in biosimilars in Europe

GaBI Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 188-192

  Watson, Keith ^a   Acha, Virginia ^b   Akers, Catherine ^b   Roediger, Alexander ^c   Rembratt, Åsa ^d   Hume, Edward ^e   Bisordi, Fabio ^f   van Bruggen, Marloes ^f  

^a ABBVIE INC   (United States)

^b AMGEN LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c MSD   (United Kingdom)

^d Novo Nordisk Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^f ROCHE PRODUCTS LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosimilars; EMA (European Medicines Agency); Labels; PIL (product information leaflet); SmPC (Summary of Product Characteristics)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008257448     PISSN: 20336403     EISSN: 20336772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2014.0304.043     Document Type: Note

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