Oncology drug shortages in the USA - business as usual

Affiliations

¹ Drug Information and Support Services, Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah Health and University of Utah College of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. erin.fox@hsc.utah.edu.
² Division of Pediatric Hematology / Oncology, The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai and Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD, USA. yunguru@lifebridgehealth.org.

Erin R Fox et al. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;17(3):128-129.

doi: 10.1038/s41571-019-0318-x.

¹ Drug Information and Support Services, Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah Health and University of Utah College of Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. erin.fox@hsc.utah.edu.
² Division of Pediatric Hematology / Oncology, The Herman and Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai and Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD, USA. yunguru@lifebridgehealth.org.

No abstract available

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