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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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Medications in Single-Dose Vials: Implications of Discarded Drugs
Consensus Study Report
·2021
Every year, significant amounts of expensive drugs are discarded. This is due in part to the growing number of prescription drugs that are administered in variable doses (rather than fixed or flat doses) based on a patient's weight or body size. Strict regulations and guidance generally prohibit or...
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