TY  - JOUR
T1  - Drug shortages and clinicians: Comment on “coping with critical drug shortages”
AU  - Rochon PA, Gurwitz JH
Y1  - 2012/10/22
N1  - 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.332
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1499
EP  - 1500
VL  - 172
IS  - 19
N2  - 
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

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.332
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.332
ER  -