Drug Shortages Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Drug shortages are a chronic and worsening issue that compromises patient safety. Despite the destabilizing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pharmaceutical production, it remains unclear whether issues affecting the drug supply chain were more likely to result in meaningful shortages during the pandemic.

Objective

To estimate the proportion of supply chain issue reports associated with drug shortages overall and with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

This longitudinal cross-sectional study used data from the IQVIA Multinational Integrated Data Analysis database, comprising more than 85% of drug purchases by US pharmacies from wholesalers and manufacturers, from 2017 to 2021. Data were analyzed from January to May 2023.

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SUBMITTER: Callaway Kim K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10998160 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature