"The Problem of Drug Shortages in the Emergency Department"

KevinMD, Mar. 26, 2018

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'“Doctor, We Have No Saline Today”: The Curious Case of the Generic Injectable Drug Shortage'
Academic Emergency Medicine, July 5, 2014
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Safe Harbor Cost Analysis, Jan. 20, 2019
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"Drug Shortage Guidelines: Sign of an Ongoing Problem?" 
MedPage Today, Feb. 2, 2016
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"As they fight flu, hospitals cope with shortage of IV fluids"

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 14, 2018

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"Time to Free a Controlled Marketplace for Generic Drugs"
Barron's, Oct. 15, 2016
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"Modern Medicine at the Crossroads"
Journal of American Physicians & Surgeons, Fall 2015
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"Forum: Blumenthal's Silence Deafening on Root Cause of Surging Generic Drug Prices"
New Haven Register, Jan. 11, 2016
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"When Shortages Strike Medical Supplies"

Washington Times, Mar. 14, 2018

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"Public Outcry Over U. S. Generic Drug Price Hikes"
Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Oct. 6, 2015
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"Phillip Zweig on Legalized Kickbacks in Healthcare"

Corporate Crime Reporter, Apr. 23, 2018

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"Expectation of drug shortages has become 'new norm' for cancer care"
HemOnc Today, Feb. 10, 2015

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"There's a National Shortage of Saline Solution. Yeah, We're Talking Salt Water. Huh?"
Fortune, Feb. 5, 2015

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"How to Stop Generic Drug Shortages: End Hospital Group Purchasing Kickbacks"
Fortune.com, Jan. 30, 2015
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Presentation  by PADS co-chair Margaret D. Clapp, former chief of pharmacy at Massachusetts General Hospital,  to the Society of Critical Care Medicine annual Congress Jan. 20, 2015 on how GPOs caused the drug shortages

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"GPOs fuel drug shortages"

Baltimore Sun, Feb. 7, 2014

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"How a Cabal Keeps Generics Scarce"
New York Times, Sept. 3, 2013

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 "Pay-to-Play: The Impact of Group Purchasing Organizations on Drug Shortages"
 American University Law School Business Law Review, Spring 2014

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"NQF [National Quality Forum] CEO Outed as Member of Premier Inc. Board
HCRenewalFeb. 21, 2014

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"Physicians Against Drug Shortages Challenge the Controlled Drug Market for Hospitals"
PolicyMed, Sept. 11, 2013,

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"Escalating Drug Prices: Not All Is What It Seems"
American Council on Science and Health, Oct. 4, 2016,

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"Drug Shortages: Why They Happen and How They Can Be Solved?"
Life Science Leader, Dec. 2013

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"Group Blames GPOs for Generic Drug Shortages"
Modern Healthcare, Sept. 9, 2013
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"Doctor Group Claims Drug Purchasing Organizations Causing Chronic Shortages"
Anesthesiology News, Apr. 3, 2013,

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  "GPOs to Blame for Drug Shortages, Says Physicians Group"
 Medscape. Jan. 24, 2013
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"Meningitis Outbreak: Lawmakers Question Drug Purchasing Groups"
Tennessean, Nov. 24, 2012

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"Buying Groups' Role in Drug Shortages Queried"
MedPageToday, Nov. 16, 2012,
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"Drug Shortages Spark Use of Compounders" 
MedPage Today, Oct. 18, 2012,

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"Where Does the Law Against Kickbacks Not Apply? Your Hospital"

The Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2018

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"Generic Drugs: Low Supply and High Prices"
Sentinel: Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists Newsletter, Spring 2016
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"Medical Supply Middlemen Made the Winter Flu Crisis Even Worse"

PennLive, May 2, 2018

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Letters to the Editor, "Drug Rebates Help Many, but Not Patients"
The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 24, 2018, [in response to oped of Sept. 16, 2018, "Drug Rebates Aren't 'Kickbacks'"]
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"A Potential Unexpected Consequence of Drug Shortages on Long-Term Prescribing Patterns"
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, May 1, 2015
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​​​​"Premier Position"

Business North Carolina, Aug. 2015

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"Chemotherapy Drug Shortages in the United States Revisited"

Journal of Oncology Practice, Sept. 2014

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PADS in the NEWS​​

Articles By Physicians Against Drug Shortages

"Schumer defends system that creates shortages of critical prescription drugs"

Buffalo News, Mar. 16, 2014

Letter to the Editor in response to Oct. 2013 article on drug shortages by McKeever et al
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing,  Mar. 2014

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"Drug Shortages Not Going Away"
MedpageToday, May 13, 2013,

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"Editorial: What is the Solution to Drug Shortages?"
Life Science Leader, Dec. 2013

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"Editorial: Greed, Legalized Corruption, and the Death Penalty"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 13, 2013
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"Elizabeth Warren Plan Would Allow the Government to Manufacture its Own Generic Drugs"
The Intercept, Dec. 18, 2018
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Statement of Mitchell Goldstein M. D. before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on GPOs, April 30, 2002

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"Blog: Senator says GPOs may play role in high healthcare costs"
Modern Healthcare, Mar. 29, 2016
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Comments to Food and Drug Administration in response to request for comment on root causes of drug shortages, Jan.10, 2019
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Comments to Health & Human Services Inspector General in response to request for comment on proposal to rescind safe harbor for Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) rebates, April, 82019
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PADS Comments, Testimony and Other Documents

"Identifying the Root Cause of Drug Shortages: A Call to Action"
Anesthesiology News, Oct. 25, 2018
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"Drug Costs, Drug Shortages, & Group Purchasing Organizations"

Sentinel [Pennsylvania Society of Anesthesiologists], Summer 2018

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"​Emergency Room Doctors, Paramedics Decry Shortage of Sugar, Salt Water​"

NBC NEWS 4 NEW YORK, June 4, 2015

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"J&J's Solution to the Compassionate-Use Hot Potato"
Life Science Leader Magazine, May 18, 2015

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"GAO Urges Study on How Hospitals Report Some Fees"

Charlotte Observer, Nov. 24, 2014

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"Unreported GPO fees may cause hospital overpayments"

Modern Healthcare, Nov. 29, 2014

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Articles About Physicians Against Drug Shortages

Letter to the Editor. [In response to article of Nov. 2, "In Pharmaceutical

Pricing, Scarcity Overrules Regulation"]

Barron's, Nov. 16, 2015

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"Hospital Drug Shortages: What is Really Causing Them?"

Medill News Service, May 26, 2016

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"Letter: Congress Should Repeal "Safe Harbor" Provision"

Bend Bulletin (Oregon), March 12, 2017

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"President Trump Can End Shortages, Reduce Prices by Promoting Competition"

Investors Business Daily, Apr. 2, 2018

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"Group Purchasing Organizations: Gaming the System"

Journal of the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Summer 2018

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"Hospitals, foundations launch Civica RX, first nonprofit drug-making company"
Washington Times, Sept. 6, 2018

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"Blumenthal Seeks Answers on whether health purchasing groups are costing consumers"
New Haven Register, Mar. 28, 2016
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"What's Really to Blame for Drug Shortages?"

Pharmaceutical Online, June 15, 2015

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"Anesthesiologists Voice Frustration Over Continued Drug Shortages"
Medscape, Oct. 17, 2012,
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