RT Journal
A1 Rochon PA, Gurwitz JH
T1 Drug shortages and clinicians: Comment on “coping with critical drug shortages”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD October 22
VO 172
IS 19
SP 1499
OP 1500
DO 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.332
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.332
AB 
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has defined a drug shortage as being when “the total supply of all clinically interchangeable versions of an FDA-regulated drug is inadequate to meet the current or projected demand at the patient level.”1(p8) The list of drug therapies in short supply almost tripled between 2005 and 2010, with 178 drug shortages identified in 2010.1 From January through October 2011, there were 220 shortages reported by the FDA.2