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Researchers detail response to latest immunoglobulin shortage.
2003 MAR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers detail response to latest shortage of IVIG.
According to recent research from the United States, "In fall 1997, a shortage of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) developed in the United States because of increased demand for the product, reduced supply, and product recalls. This shortage is a useful model for understanding how our health care system responds to scarcity."
"Although the U. S. government took steps to inform the medical community of the shortage, with few exceptions, the government did not respond to the shortage in a timely or effective manner," said Ann Boulis and colleagues at the Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center. "Instead, it took a relatively passive role, leaving IVIG manufacturers and distributors, health care institutions, and clinicians to fend for themselves. The shortage likely had an uneven impact on patients, based on the relative market strength of the health care institutions in which they received care and the individual patient's ability to absorb the increasing out-of-pocket costs of scarce IVIG."
The researchers concluded, "Market ...
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