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Many prescription medications are dispensed in weight-based single-dose vials containing standard amounts of drugs that exceeds required dosages for the average patient, leading to billions of dollars in leftover single use medications that are destroyed. The National Academies with support from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through a congressional mandate initiated this study to examine federal health care costs, patient safety, and quality concerns associated with discarded drugs resulting from weight-based dosing of medicines contained in single-dose vials, and to produce a report which shall include recommendations to Congress to reduce waste in the biopharmaceutical supply chain.
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