Drug shortages in U.S. emergency rooms increased by more than 400 percent between 2001 and 2014, a new study finds.
The study, published in Academic Emergency Medicine, a medical journal, found more than 1,800 reported drug shortages during the 13-year timeframe.
Just over a third of the reported shortages came from emergency departments, and in more than half of them involved a life-saving drug, leading experts to call the phenomenon a public health crisis.
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