How the US Food and Drug Administration Can Solve the Prescription Drug Shortage Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11038995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stuart O Schweitzer (Stuart O. Schweitzer is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | e10-e14 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2013.301239 |
| PMID | 23488502 |
| PMCID | PMC3698821 |
| OpenAlex | W2006275308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Drug shortages are threatening care quality and cost-containment efforts. I describe the pharmaceutical marketplace changes that have caused the problem, and propose new policies to solve it, through changing incentives for producers and purchasers. I propose a grading scheme for the Food and Drug Administration when it inspects manufacturing facilities in the United States and abroad. The inspections’ focus would change from closing unsafe plants to improving production process quality, reducing the likelihood that plants will be closed—the most frequent cause of drug shortages
Administration (probate law) · Drug · Economic shortage · Environmental health · Food and drug administration · Government (linguistics) · Medical prescription · Political science · Prescription drug · Medicine · Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Pharmaceutical studies and practices · Pharmacology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |