Overspending driven by oversized single dose vials of cancer drugs.

BMJ

Center for Health Policy and Outcomes, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 485 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

Published: February 2016

call for an end to contradictory regulatory standards in the US that allow drug manufacturers to boost profits by producing single dose vials containing quantities that increase leftover drug

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