Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2023
Why are there drug shortages?
18 April 2023 - What if you are hospitalised and the drug needed to save your life isn’t available? That possibility is less remote than you might think.
For the past two decades the US has been experiencing shortages of cancer drugs, antibiotics and even saline, a drug potentially needed by almost every patient who gets admitted to the hospital. Nearly all thirty of the most frequently used emergency department drugs experienced shortages from 2006-2019.
