Abstract:Purpose: Studies suggested that drug pricing might be a risk
factor for drug shortage; however, a few provided a quantitative
assessment of this possible causal association. This study aimed to
assess whether drug prices are associated with drug shortage incidents.
Methods: This was a retrospective database analysis study.
Drugs with shortage notifications (one drug per notification) that were
sent to the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) from Jan/2017 to
Dec/2020 by different stakeholders were included in … Show more
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