TY  - JOUR
T1  - DEspite curbing new drug shortages, shortfall of drugs a persistent problem
AU  - Kuehn BM
Y1  - 2013/02/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.216795
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 532
EP  - 533
VL  - 309
IS  - 6
N2  - 
“On a weekly basis, [health care workers] are dealing with very significant shortages of important drugs,” explained Marc H. Scheetz, PharmD, associate professor of pharmacy practice at Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy, in Downers Grove, Ill. Scheetz, Milena (Griffith) McLaughlin, PharmD (an infectious disease pharmacotherapy fellow), and colleagues published a review of anti-infective shortages in 2012 (Griffith MM et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2012;54[5]:684-691). Anti-infective drugs are often “irreplaceable,” said Scheetz, who said that he has heard anecdotal reports of patients being harmed or even dying because the preferred drug for treating their condition was unavailable. Scheetz and his colleagues are trying to collect reports of patient harm caused by shortages, to better quantify this problem (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/antimicrobialshortages).

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.216795
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.216795
ER  -