Abstract
BackgroundMalaysia is now confronting a challenge of increasing health care expenditures over the years. Due to the absence of drug price regulation in Malaysia, pharmaceutical companies, wholesaler, and health care professional can set their own retail selling price. Consequently, it has caused highly markup of pharmaceutical products by unscrupulous health care professional. The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of simulated client method in obtaining medicine price, to access the actual selling price of selected medicines, to evaluate the medicine price variation according to different districts and types of pharmacies, and to identify the percentage of profit margin of selected medicines.MethodSimulated client method was adopted in this study by using cluster random sampling technique. The selected 85 community pharmacies all were from state of Penang. Ten people of Universiti Sains Malaysia undergraduate students had been recruited as simulated clients to elicit information about pharmace...
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