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SUBMITTER: Alpert A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6663594 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alpert Abby A Jacobson Mireille M
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 20190408 2
Prescription drug shortages began to increase markedly in the mid-2000s, including sterile injectable products such as chemotherapy drugs. Using Medicare claims linked to Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER), we examined outpatient chemotherapy use during shortage periods relative to the months before and after a shortage for newly diagnosed patients with breast, colorectal, leukemia, lung, lymphoma, ovarian, or pancreatic cancer (N = 182,470). For most drugs, we found little impact ...[more]