Open AccessTrends in Pricing and Generic Competition Within the Oral Antibiotic Drug Market in the United States
Author(s) -
Jonathan D. Alpern,
Lei Zhang,
William M. Stauffer,
Aaron S. Kesselheim
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix634
Subject(s) - antibiotics , medicine , competition (biology) , generic drug , drug prices , drug , public economics , pharmacology , economics , ecology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
In recent years, the price of many older generic drugs, including numerous antibiotics, has increased substantially. We sought to analyze recent price changes and extent of generic competition within a cohort of commonly prescribed off-patent oral antibiotics.
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