Controlling the cost of prescription drugs.
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harmaceutical prices have risen draP l matically in the past 10 years and will I continue to escalate for the next two or three years, Michael Pollard told participants at Managing the Rising Cost of Drugs : A Mult idiscipl inary Approach to Improving Hospital Services, a November 1991 meeting held in Westborough, MA. Pollard, long-time pharmaceutical analyst and partner at the Washington, DC, law firm of Michaels & Wishner, warned the audience of hospital administrators, financial officers, and pharmacists that the rising prices could have a negative impact on hospitals in the future.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Health progress
دوره 73 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992