Background: To monitor the magnitude of the drug shortage problem in Canada, since 2017,
Health Canada has required manufacturers to report drug shortages. This study aimed to …

Objectives Many signs point to the growing importance of drug shortages in Canada and
around the world. Although drug shortages affect clinicians and patients every day, there is a …

Drug shortages provoke great anxiety among patients who cannot obtain trusted
medications for chronic conditions. For pharmacists and the care team, shortages demand …

Background Drug shortages are a growing global problem, posing clinical and economic
challenges. To understand them better, we conducted an inventory of national public drug …

Background Drug shortages are a global problem. While extensively studied in the United
States, numbers about drug shortages in European countries are scarce. This study aims to …

In news articles published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2010 and 2011,
Eggertson highlighted the problem of drug shortages in Canada and described initiatives of …

Background Drug shortages represent a complex global problem affecting patients and
health care professionals on a daily basis. Objectives To identify, describe, and compare …

Reports of drug shortages date back to the 1970s, 1, 2 but recent years have seen an
increase in the number and severity of supply shortages. Recently, Vogel3 commented on …

Background Drug shortages are a global problem. Analyzing shortages worldwide is
important to identify possible relationships between drug shortages across countries …

The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (CJHP) first published an editorial regarding
drug shortages in 2012. 1 Almost 7 years later, this issue of CJHP includes a study …