Can This Product Be Substituted? (Orange Book and Purple Book)
Can This Product Be Substituted? (Orange Book and Purple Book) - a deterministic tool in Sophie Well's Medication Access & Pharmacy group.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Inputs and output
- What you enter
- What you get
- Example: not substitutable, because the ratings differ (AB2 prescribed, AB1 on the shelf).
The tool opens pre-filled with that example. Replace the values with your own.
How this is calculated
Citation
FDA Orange Book preface, section 1.7 (therapeutic equivalence codes; a three-character code such as AB1 is equivalent only to the same code); FDA Purple Book and PHS Act 351(i)(3), 42 U.S.C. 262(i)(3) (an interchangeable product may be substituted without the prescriber). Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.