Chief Healthcare Executive April 12, 2024
The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists reports 323 active drug shortages. The group’s CEO says shortages include emergency medications in hospital crash carts.
Hospitals and other providers have been wrestling with shortages of drugs, and the situation is worsening.
The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists reports a record of 323 active drug shortages in the first quarter of 2024. The ASHP says shortages include life-saving medications, such as cancer drugs.
“This is an all-time high,” Paul Abramowitz, the ASHP’s chief executive officer, said in a statement on the group’s website.
The shortages also include emergency medications stored in hospital crash carts and generic sterile injectable medications, such as chemotherapy drugs. “All drug classes are vulnerable to shortages,” Abramowitz said.
“Ongoing...
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