New report reviews methods for reducing waste, improving efficiency with expensive injectable medications

New Report Reviews Methods for Reducing Waste, Improving Efficiency With Expensive Injectable Medications – The ASCO Post

Summary: Medications in Single-Dose Vials and Implications of Discarded Injectable Drugs: A National Academies Report – JAMA

Original report: Medications in Single Dose Vials: Implications of Discarded Drugs (2021) – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Commentary on Twitter

"significant amounts of expensive injectable or infused drugs, distributed in single-dose vials, are discarded" but hard to quantify.

Medications in Single-Dose Vials and Implications of Discarded Injectable Drugs: A National Academies Report https://t.co/z3ebKGIcEg

— Suresh Nirody (@snirody) February 26, 2021