Question

Prescription Drugs: Describe and discuss generic drug shortages and the related impact on consumers, employers, employees, insurance companies, and health care providers (i.e., hospitals).

Answer 1

ANS) Currently the drug shortage is one of the major dare which is faced by the all healthcare centers like the hospitals.Presently around 121 important life supporting drugs are in shortage and in every year around 70 percentage of the hospital pharmacists are clearly announcing around 55 shortages of drugs.So due to this shortage of drugs the healthcare providers are enforced to make lag in the medical care.And due to this shortage of drugs not only the patients but also it make many impacts on the consumers, insurance companies , employees and healthcare providers.

-- The Drug shortage can can harmfully influence the patient care in the community and hospital surroundings or settings.This condition can happen due to lots of reasons like the production and quality problems, lagging, and the disruptions.According to the FDA or Food and Drug Administration act called the Safety and Innovation Act 2012, all the pharmaceutical firms should report ant kind of possible problems to the Food and Safety Administration that may guide to the shortage of drugs.

-- A healthcare execution development company had done a cross examination in between its members to assess the economic and labor related effect of the drug shortage in the hospital surroundings.The members who are included in this cross examination was the pharmacy purchaser ,pharmacy executive, clinical supporter, clinical pharmacist, providing chain chief and also the president of the pharmacy.This survey has shown that 100 percentage of the provisions survived was adversely influenced due to the shortage of drugs.And it is also shown that 8.7 million individual hours yearly controlling the influence of drug shortage.

-- It is also roughly calculated that the drug shortage is pricing facilities at the minimum 359$ million annually in labor price for executing alleviation master plans to make growth in the patient caring.Some of the important classification of drug with the drug shortage seen to have the major influence on the health care centers were managed substances, antibiotics, anesthetics and electrolytes etc...And studies has also shown that around 39 percentage of the healthcare centers like the hospitals has reported more than a drug shortage connected medical mistakes.

-- So we can say that this all surveys and reports shared major informations about the influence of drugs in the hospital surroundings.

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