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Is the UK too slow in the uptake of new medicines?
Author(s) -
Chaplin Steve
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1312
Subject(s) - medicine , ranking (information retrieval) , range (aeronautics) , traditional medicine , information retrieval , computer science , engineering , aerospace engineering
According to the ABPI the UK is slow to introduce new medicines across a range of categories. In this article we look at how the UK's use of new medicines compares with other countries and question how meaningful the ranking system is.