Download or read book Prescription Drug Shortages written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short supply Prescription Drugs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shortages of Prescription Drugs 1974 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prescription Drugs in Short Supply written by Michael A. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drug Shortage Mitigation through Supply Chain Management written by Isabelle Köhler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,0, San Diego State University, course: Global Supply Chain Management, language: English, abstract: The healthcare system of the U.S. is increasingly challenged by prescription drug shortages. But what are the root causes for this problem and how can these shortages be mitigated? Which role plays effective supply chain management in that setting? This paper addresses these questions and discusses possible approaches to strengthen the pharmaceutical supply chain in the U.S.
Download or read book Persistent Drug Shortages in the United States written by Hillary E. Robinson and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prolonged duration of a disease, to permanent injury, to death, drug shortages have led to harmful outcomes for patients of all ages. Over the last decade, an increasing number of prescription drugs -- including life-saving and life-sustaining drugs -- have been in short supply, preventing health care providers and patients from accessing medications that are essential for treatment. During shortages, providers -- including hospitals, physicians, and pharmacists -- may have to use medications that could be less effective for treating conditions or carry unwanted side-effects, if alternatives are available at all. The immediate cause of drug shortages can generally be traced to a manufacturer halting or slowing production to address quality problems, triggering a supply disruption. Other manufacturers have a limited ability to respond to supply disruptions due to constrained manufacturing capacity. This book reviews the trends in recent drug shortages and describes what is known about their effect on patients and providers; examines the causes of drug shortages; and evaluates the progress FDA has made in addressing drug shortages.
Download or read book Drug Information written by Patrick M. Malone and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive coverage of the Internet as a source of and distribution means for drug information, and detailed sections on evaluating medical literature from clinical trials Audience includes Pharmacists, Pharmacy students and Pharmacy schools Updated to include using PDAs for medication information Covers the ethical and legal aspects of drug information management Nothing else like it on the market
Download or read book Making Medicines Affordable written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.
Download or read book China Rx written by Rosemary Gibson and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it-- and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This probing book examines the implications for the quality and availability of vital medicines for consumers. Several decades ago, penicillin, vitamin C, and many other prescription and over-the-counter products were manufactured in the United States. But with the rise of globalization, antibiotics, antidepressants, birth control pills, blood pressure medicines, cancer drugs, among many others are made in China and sold in the United States. China's biggest impact on the US drug supply is making essential ingredients for thousands of medicines found in American homes and used in hospital intensive care units and operating rooms. The authors convincingly argue that there are at least two major problems with this scenario. First, it is inherently risky for the United States to become dependent on any one country as a source for vital medicines, especially given the uncertainties of geopolitics. For example, if an altercation in the South China Sea causes military personnel to be wounded, doctors may rely upon medicines with essential ingredients made by the adversary. Second, lapses in safety standards and quality control in Chinese manufacturing are a risk. Citing the concerns of FDA officials and insiders within the pharmaceutical industry, the authors document incidents of illness and death caused by contaminated medications that prompted reform. This is a disturbing, well-researched book and a wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.
Download or read book Shortages of Prescription Drugs 1974 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Supply Chains Medicines Shortages written by Ana Paula Barbosa-Povoa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an insight of relevant case studies and updated practices in “PharmaceuticalSupply Chains” (PharmSC) while addressing the most relevant topics within the COST Action “Medicines Shortages” (CA15105).The volume focuses on the most recent developments in the design, planning and scheduling ofPharmSC, broadening from the suppliers’ selection to the impact on patients and healthcaresystems, addressing uncertainty and risk mitigation, and computational issues. It is directed at MSc/PhD students and young researchers (Post-Docs) in Pharmaceutics/Pharmaceutical sciences, Engineering fields, Economics/Management, as well as pharmaceutical decision makers, managers, and practitioners, and advanced readers demanding a fresh approach to decision making for PharmSC. The contributed chapters are associated with the homonymous COST Training Schools (TS), and the book creates a better understanding of the Action “Medicines Shortages” challenges and opportunities.
Download or read book National Drug Shortages written by Reid T. Stephens and published by Nova Science Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the trends and FDA response to national drug shortages. In recent years, hospitals and health care professionals have increasingly reported nationwide shortages of prescription drugs, including those that are life-saving and life-sustaining. Drug shortages directly threaten public health by preventing patients from accessing medications that are essential to their care. For example, recent shortages of oncology drugs have sparked concerns from health care professionals about how to care for cancer patients that need such medications in order to survive. During shortages, physicians may have to ration their supplies, delay treatments, or use alternative medications that may be less effective for the condition, carry unwanted side effects, or are most costly.
Download or read book Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Download or read book Short Supply Prescription Drugs written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-supply prescription drugs : shining a light on the gray market : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, July 25, 2012.
Download or read book The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care written by Filipa Alves da Costa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the contributions of global experts, this book meets the growing need to understand the implementation and development of pharmaceutical care. Pharmaceutical Care Implementation details the clinical pharmacist's role in providing care to different kind of patients using clinical strategies that improve humanistic, economic and clinical outcomes. Written with a focus for students and pharmacists, this book offers multiple scenarios that serve to improve technical skills. These examples show step-by-step implementation processes from pharmacists who have worked for many years in these fields: drug-related problems, pharmaceutical care in different settings (community, hospital, home care), research outcomes, communication skills, indicators, advertising, remuneration of practice, standards, guidelines, protocols and teaching approaches for universities. Readers will use this book to:- Improve their skills to prevent, detect and solve drug-related problems - Understand the characteristics of care for patients in different settings- Consolidate knowledge from different global research outcomes- Develop and improve communication skills to establish relationships with patients and healthcare professionals.- Learn to use indicators, standards,guidelines,and protocols to guide and evaluate pharmaceutical care performance- Use different tools to advertise pharmaceutical care services- Document pharmaceutical care practices and create evidence for remuneration
Download or read book Pay to Play written by Christian DeRoo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States prescription drug shortage crisis is a serious and preventable problem. Numerous reasons have been suggested as potential causes of the crisis; however, none are wholly satisfactory. This Note attempts to address the drug shortage crisis by arguing that the contracting practices of Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) create decreased pharmaceutical manufacturer diversity and a fragile supply chain. GPOs were formed with the purpose of consolidating buyer power for hospitals to secure the best possible prices for medical supplies, including prescription drugs, and the lowest possible cost for hospital patients. However, GPOs have strayed from this purpose, engaging in contracting practices that increase their profits at the expense of hospital patients and generic drug manufacturers. The contracting practices used by GPOs would be illegal under usual antitrust and fraud law, but GPOs enjoy several unique safe harbors that immunize them from prosecution. Eliminating the anticompetitive effect of GPOs will require significant reforms by both the executive and legislative branches. Repealing the safe harbors protecting GPOs from antitrust scrutiny will increase manufacturer diversity and lower manufacturer entry barriers. This will create a more robust healthcare supply chain capable of rapidly shifting production to meet demand in the face of potential shortages.
Download or read book Drug Shortages written by Marcia Crosse and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug shortages are a serious public health concern. Previous reports found that many shortages were of sterile injectable drugs and could generally be traced to supply disruptions caused by manufacturers slowing or halting production to address quality issues. This report reviewed several aspects of drug shortages. It examines: (1) trends in drug shortages; (2) the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) efforts to prioritize reviews of drug submissions to address shortages; (3) trends in FDA warning letters issued to sterile injectable manufacturing establishments for noncompliance with manufacturing standards; and (4) the relationship between certain factors and shortages of sterile injectable drugs. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
