Intellectual analysis of criteria that influence the choice of medicines for dispensing by electronic prescriptions

Conclusions: We have determined the criteria for selecting medicinal products by pharmaceutical clerks while filling e-prescriptions, which can be used in the practical activities of pharmaceutical workers as an integral part of the process of optimizing pharmacy inventories. The most important criteria have been found the amount of co-payment for medicine, the country of manufacture/medicines manufacturer, and the history of medicine administration by the patient. The criteria of the presence or absence of evidence-based data on the efficacy of a particular medicine and the medicine`s belonging to generics or original medicines have been found the least important. The inability of a pharmaceutical clerk/pharmacy worker to select a medicine based on one or more of the above selection criteria is considered one of the reasons for failure to dispense up to 20% of medicinal products under e-prescriptions.