{"id":13721,"date":"2019-08-01T09:32:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13721"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:32:38","slug":"how-our-health-systems-are-working-to-prevent-hospital-drug-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13721","title":{"rendered":"How our health systems are working to prevent hospital drug shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barclay E. Berdan, Scott Reiner, and Terry Shaw for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">D<\/span><\/span>rug shortages are a major challenge for hospitals. Today,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/drugshortages\/default.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">121 key lifesaving drugs<\/a>\u00a0are in short supply and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2728954https:\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/03\/190327112602.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70%<\/a>\u00a0of all hospital pharmacists report at least 50 shortages a year. Without these lifesaving drugs on hand, providers may be forced to delay medically necessary care or substitute therapies that may not be as effective. Health systems like ours can help alleviate the problem.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/08\/01\/hospital-drug-shortages\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barclay E. Berdan, Scott Reiner, and Terry Shaw for STAT) Drug shortages are a major challenge for hospitals. Today,\u00a0121<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}