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Will Serious Shortage Protocols help ease drug shortages?
Author(s) -
Dowden Angela
Publication year - 2020
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.1844
Subject(s) - economic shortage , medicine , stock (firearms) , protocol (science) , risk analysis (engineering) , intensive care medicine , alternative medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , government (linguistics)
Historically, pharmacists have had very limited options when faced with drugs that are out of stock, but recently introduced Serious Shortage Protocols could theoretically help mitigate shortages by giving them the power to dispense something different. But what do pharmacists and prescribers make of these new protocols, and what are the implications for patients?