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The Unreliability of Estimated Release Dates in Hospital Drug Shortage Management: A Case Study of Hospital Pharmacy Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2025-07-11 health systems and quality improvement Title + abstract only
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Drug shortages are prominent, persistent operational challenges that hospital pharmacies have been facing for years. During a drug shortage, hospital pharmacists must solve the problem of how best to invest resources to mitigate the effect of the drug shortage on patient health care. One piece of data they use to inform their decision-making is the estimate release date (ERD) of a drug, a point estimate given from the pharmaceutical manufacturer specifying when the next release of a drug (that i...

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