Statins: is it safe and effective to use generic "equivalents"?

Editorial Statins: Is it Safe and Effective to Use Generic “Equivalents”? Cynthia A. Jackevicius, BScPhm, PharmD, MSc, Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD, and Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM a Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California, USA b Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada c Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada d Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA e University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada f Division of Cardiology, Schulich Heart Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada g Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA h Yale University School of Medicine, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA i Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Section of Health Policy and Administration, New Haven, Connecticut, USA j Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, New Haven, Connecticut, USA