0 relating to owning something, or relating to or like an owner:
1 owned and legally controlled by a particular company:
2 used in the names of companies in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa:
3 used to describe a product that is made and sold by a particular company whose name, or a name that it owns, is on the product:
4 relating to ideas or information that belong to one particular company and can only be used by them:
At the same time, the cost of prescribing branded drugs—the proprietaries—has risen from under £10 million to £78 million a year.
The question of proprietaries is the one that interests the public most.
The increase in average cost represents an increased proportion of proprietaries and other expensive drugs, rather than an increase in the prices of individual drugs.
Both these forms of guidance should avoid the use of expensive proprietaries where there is any suitable standard alternative.
In the case of proprietaries advertised to the public, legislation prohibits the advertising of medicines in certain circumstances.
They were disappointed that negotiations had so far been concluded for only two out of 8,000 proprietaries.
In the pharmaceutical field we had two main lines of investigation, first into the basic drugs and, secondly, into the proprietaries.
Is the consultant who likes to prescribe expensive proprietaries, when much cheaper standard preparations are equally efficacious, communicated with?
