ReviewThe Australasian medical journal2013
Why drug shortages are an ethical issue.
Review in The Australasian medical journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Structural drivers of drug shortages and market withdrawal: a longitudinal analysis of the Romanian pharmaceutical market.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Drug Shortage and Ethical Issues: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives with a Shared Ethical Framework.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- An assessment of the factors contributing to the unavailability of drugs at outpatient pharmacy of tertiary care hospital: an observational study.F1000Research · 2023Observational
- Impact of medicine shortages on patients - a framework and application in the Netherlands.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Addressing Cancer Treatment Shortages in Saudi Arabia: Results of a National Survey and Expert Panel Recommendations.JCO global oncology · 2020Article
- Drug shortages in Saudi Arabia: Root causes and recommendations.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2018Article
- Medicine shortages in Australia - what are we doing about them?Australian prescriber · 2018Article
- Systemic Measures and Legislative and Organizational Frameworks Aimed at Preventing or Mitigating Drug Shortages in 28 European and Western Asian Countries.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2017Article
- Development of biosimilars in an era of oncologic drug shortages.Drug design, development and therapy · 2015Review
- Access and availability of essential medicines in Chhattisgarh: Situation in public health facilities.Journal of family medicine and primary careArticle
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Abstract
Drug shortages are a growing problem in developed countries. To some extent they are the result of technical and organisational failures, but to view drug shortages simply as technical and economic phenomena is to miss the fact that they are also ethical and political issues. This observation is important because it highlights both the moral and political imperative to respond to drug shortages as vigorously as possible, and the need for those addressing shortages to do so in ethically and politically sophisticated ways. This brief article outlines the ethical issues that need to be considered by anyone attempting to understand or address drug shortages.
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