The report "Tested Solutions for Eliminating Canada's Registered Nursing Shortage" (Tomblin Murphy et al. 2009) projects a nursing shortage in Canada and offers strategies for eliminating that shortage. Using a population needs-based approach, the report estimates that in the year 2007, the shortage of nurses was 11,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) registered nurses. By 2022, the shortage will gr...

ciation is negotiating with drug manufacturers, hospital pharmacists and the Canadian Medical Association to create a national reporting system that would track drug shortages. “We still have a long way to go, but the discussions have started,” says Jeff Morrison, director of government relations and public affairs for the Canadian Pharmacists Association. Recent shortages of cancer drugs such ...

A long time has passed since I last gave chemotherapy, but I have not been immune to the news about the drug shortages in the past few years. Therefore, I wanted to explore what was behind the headlines like “U.S. facing cancer drug shortage: Ariz. doctors rationing supplies; FDA allowing India imports” in the February 22nd Arizona Business News (Alltucker, 2012). You may have been more directl...

Little is known about the impact of vaccine shortages on vaccination rates among disadvantaged populations in the United States. We compared factors associated with influenza vaccination rates during a vaccine shortage (2004-2005) and a non-shortage (2003-2004) year among adults in predominantly minority New York City neighborhoods. Thirty-one percent of participants received influenza vaccine ...