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Record W4414571585 · doi:10.52711/0974-360x.2025.00560

Consumer Experiences of Mispurchase Associated with Drug Names

2025· article· en· W4414571585 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueResearch Journal of Pharmacy and Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBrand namesAlternative medicineDrug administrationQuarter (Canadian coin)Medicinal plantsDrug

Abstract

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Several studies suggest that confusable brand names are the most common reason for the mispurchase of medicinal products, accounting for a quarter (25%) of all errors made in the administration of medicinal products. The study aims to investigate the frequency of mistakes associated with the naming of medicinal products. The research shows that consumers tend to confuse medicinal products with the same and different dosage forms. In 65.3% of cases, mistakes are made when choosing between two brand names with the same administration method. The detected mistakes are classified by criticality according to the severity of their consequences. The analysis shows that 79.07% of mispurchases due to confusable brand names are marked by a high criticality of consequences, as consumers confuse medicinal products belonging to different pharmacological groups. Patients do not receive the necessary treatment and end up taking drugs that are not indicated for them, which is especially dangerous for chronic patients. In 5.81% of cases, consumers mix up the brand names of medicinal products and dietary supplements or medical devices or confuse dietary supplements. In 15.12% of cases, consumers confuse analogous medicinal products with the same active substance.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.497
Threshold uncertainty score0.426

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.094
GPT teacher head0.485
Teacher spread0.391 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it