Drug shortages in China: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug shortages significantly threaten public health and medical service provision worldwide. Research evidence on the complete picture of drug shortages is currently scant in China. This study aimed to provide a descriptive overview and a reference for alleviating of drug shortages in China.

Methods

National and provincial lists of drug shortages issued in China from 2018 to 2021 were collected and summarized. The information on essential medicines, medical insurance drugs, emergency drugs, and volume-based purchasing drugs was then matched with a drug shortage list to analyse the characteristics, proportion and incidence of drug shortage on each list based on the analysis of information such as dosage form, shortage frequency, and Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical

SUBMITTER: Song Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10159680 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature