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and that the patient may receive poorer care&#44; require hospital admission&#44; or even die &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Individualized Medicine&#44; a Good Alternative</span><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At this point&#44; we would like to ponder whether acquiring a drug from neighboring countries from time to time is the best solution in the face of an increasingly global and simultaneous problem of stock-outs&#44; or whether&#44; in contrast&#44; it would be worthwhile anticipating these problems and exploring other complementary options&#44; analyzing in depth their potential for avoiding future emergencies&#46;</p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As pharmacists&#44; we believe that this is a golden opportunity to highlight the value of individualized medicine&#44; a resource already available to our health system&#44; although one that both physicians and patients have never really trusted&#46;</p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Pharmacopeias such as the United States one refer to pharmaceutical compounding as &#8220;essential in pharmacy practice and essential for an appropriate health protection system&#46;&#8221;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Among the uses of pharmaceutical compounding recognized by the General Council of Spanish Pharmacist Associations are the following<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a>&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0025"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">1&#46;</span><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Cover therapeutic gaps&#58; the appearance of industrial medications has simplified the catalogue of available pharmacotherapeutic options&#46; Pharmaceutical compounding can cover therapeutic gaps&#46; This is essential in certain patients or diseases for which industrially available drugs specific for their needs are not available&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0030"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;</span><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Solve problems of stock-outs&#47;withdrawal of industrially produced drugs&#58; pharmaceutical compounding guarantees continuity of treatments more quickly than other options&#44; such as importing foreign drugs&#44; with notable costs for the patient or Spanish National Health System&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0035"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3&#46;</span><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Facilitate administration to the patient&#58; this is associated with an improvement in therapeutic adherence and&#44; therefore&#44; improved therapeutic outcomes&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0040"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">4&#46;</span><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Replacement of excipients in case of allergies&#44; poor tolerability&#44; interactions&#44; interference with analysis&#44; or physical-chemical incompatibilities with other products&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0045"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">5&#46;</span><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Customization of treatment to the characteristics of the patient&#58; dose adjustment or modification of the pharmaceutical form to adapt it to the individual patient characteristics and with the most appropriate dosing regimen&#46; The variability of response to drugs is the norm&#44; as demonstrated by pharmacogenomics and nanopharmacy&#44; and not the exception&#46; Moreover&#44; customization of treatment is important for improving the pharmaceutical care of the patient&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0050"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">6&#46;</span><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Reduce the risk of possible adverse reactions&#44; which helps reduce the risk of onset of possible adverse drug reactions&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0055"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">7&#46;</span><p id="par0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the case of patients admitted to hospital&#44; the hospital pharmacy services can attend to the therapeutic needs of a significant percentage of patients for whom commercial options are not available&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Accessibility as well as quality are thus guaranteed&#46; Given the specific regulations&#44; pharmacies that do not have the means for pharmaceutical compounding with guaranteed quality should subcontract the process to other specialized pharmacies&#46; Thus&#44; the patient always accesses the service by going directly to his or her reference pharmacy&#44; where he or she will also receive all the information on the conditions of access to the drug and its use&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0020">Some Examples of Replacement Pharmaceutical Compounding for Dermatological Drugs With Stock-Outs or Those That Have Been Deregistered for Commercial Reasons</span><p id="par0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0015">Table 3</a> shows some of the compounded products that we are currently producing as a result of stock-outs of the commercial product&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Conclusions</span><p id="par0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">If individualized drugs are already successfully used for personalizing treatments&#44; why shouldn&#8217;t the authorities&#44; physicians&#44; and pharmacists explore their potential in other situations such as stock-outs&#63;</p><p id="par0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is important to note that these are not second rate drugs&#44; but are supported by the most robust evidence within the pharmaceutical industry&#46; Production&#44; with application of all the appropriate know-how&#44; of a drug tailored to the patient&#39;s needs&#44; would also demonstrate&#44; once more&#44; that in this globalized world with economies of scale&#44; sometimes it is the small things that define our humanity&#46; Thus&#44; pharmaceutical compounding is at least necessary to provide a coherent and integral care system&#46;</p><p id="par0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally&#44; we make a call to the health authorities&#44; as well as the physicians and patients themselves&#44; to be aware of this instrument&#8212;pharmaceutical compounding of individualized medicines&#8212;which can contribute in its small way to the quality and overall sustainability of our beloved health system&#46; It is essential that the system itself places trust in its own health professionals&#44; including of course the pharmacists&#44; because they are its most valuable resource and the only ones able to compensate and complement the gaps left by the large drug companies&#46; Such individuals will always genuinely have the best interests of the patients at heart&#46;</p></span></span>"
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Opinion Article
What Lies Behind Drug Shortages, the Consequences–and a Good Alternative
El desabastecimiento de los medicamentos: ¿qué hay detrás? Causas, consecuencias y una buena alternativa
E. Abarca Lachéna,
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, D. Marro Ramónb
a Farmacéutico comunitario. Profesor de Formulación de Medicamentos Individualizados. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, Spain
b Farmacéutico comunitario, Director del Máster Universitario en Atención Farmacéutica y Farmacoterapia, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Jorge , Villanueva de Gállego, Spain
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there are no other approved drugs with the same active ingredient and the same route of administration&#44; and of these a total of 26 drugs &#40;15&#37;&#41; cannot even be acquired as foreign drugs&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In addition&#44; the problem has worsened in the last 6 years &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#44; as noted by the AEMPS in their 2014 annual report<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a>&#58; &#8220;The figure is considerably higher than the previous year&#44; in both the number of active drug substances that are imported as a foreign drug and the number of individual requests&#44; with this increase attributable to a greater number of stock-outs&#46;&#8221;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In most cases&#44; the problem can be attributed to 1 of 4 major causes&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">a&#41;</span><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Problems with suppliers&#58; surprisingly drug manufacturers increasingly depend on a single supplier of starting materials &#40;active ingredients&#44; excipients&#44; packaging material&#41; in a limited number of countries such as India&#44; China&#44; or Brazil&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">b&#41;</span><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Outsourcing of production&#58; several nations use a small percentage of world drug production&#44; in an increasingly demanding regulatory framework&#44; and more stringent quality metrics&#44; and so greater investment is required&#46; From the profitability point of view&#44; it is therefore not viable for drug companies to manufacture their own drugs&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">c&#41;</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Growing demand for some drugs&#58; this increase in drug demand is due&#44; above all&#44; to the progressive aging of the population and also to the appearance of increasingly effective treatments&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0020"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">d&#41;</span><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Stockpiling policies of some buyers&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">One of the most recent examples on a long list of stock-outs was that of Fortecortin &#40;Merck&#41; in April 2014&#44; which caused a lot of comment although the stock-out itself was not entirely novel&#46; In fact&#44; many of the situations described as stock-out&#44; which is understood to mean &#8220;a problem with the supply of a drug that requires a change that has an impact on patient care and requires the use of an alternative therapeutic agent&#8221; and that therefore can lead to certain alarm within society should not actually be considered as such&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Spanish pharmacists have a very efficient tool for resolving specific problems in supply of an irreplaceable drug&#58; pharmaceutical compounding of the drug under medical prescription &#40;traditionally known as magistral formula&#41;&#46; The elaboration is fully guaranteed&#44; the product fully complies with the regulations&#44; and the active ingredients and excipients are obtained from a supply industry bound by tight international legislation that fully guarantees the quality of the production process&#46;</p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Such compounding is in fact the origin of the pharmacy profession&#44; and one of the tasks of highest prestige associated with the job&#46; Currently&#44; these drugs are of unquestionable clinical importance and help provide a health service of the highest technological and professional degree&#46;</p><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Compounding pharmacists have been mitigating the effects of stock-outs for a long time&#44; adapting the drugs to the specific characteristics of patients with special needs&#46; In short&#44; such professionals have been providing a service that&#44; as far as possible&#44; guarantees that each patient receives at a given time&#44; and accurately&#44; the treatment that he or she needs&#46; Paradoxically&#44; when the AEMPS reports an episode of stock-out&#44; it almost never suggests customized drug formulation as a means to solve the problem&#46; The AEMPS statements suggest resorting to foreign medicine services&#44; changing treatment&#44; restricting the indications for use&#44; and forbidding exportations&#44; but they rarely propose pharmaceutical compounding&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a></p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">However&#44; it would be of great benefit for everybody to know the causes and&#44; from the standpoint of our profession&#44; we will attempt to clarify them&#46; Such knowledge would be of widespread benefit&#58; first&#44; our patients would have an easier solution&#44; the physicians would see their therapeutic arsenal extended&#44; the compounding pharmacists would see an increased value placed on the tasks for which they have been trained and for which there is an established legal framework&#44; and finally the Spanish authorities would be able to offer quality alternatives to their citizens while saving on costs&#46;</p><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0005">Possible Causes and Impact</span><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">What options are available at present for patients who need one of these drugs&#63; The information on the AEMPS website offers only one solution&#58; obtain the drugs from outside Spain&#44; that is&#44; request the drug on a case-by-case basis though the Foreign Medicine Service&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Before assessing whether importing a drug from abroad is the most appropriate way of overcoming a stock-out&#44; we should first take a look at the causes for the shortages in the first place&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">How is it possible that a modern health system like ours&#44; supplied by leading companies in the pharmaceutical industry&#44; can experience prolonged stock-outs of certain drugs&#46; What lies behind these interruptions in supply&#63; And while we are asking&#58; can anything be done to avoid these problems in the future&#63;</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Willem of Occam would have proposed using his famous razor&#44; that is applying simplest hypothesis to explain the most complex situations&#46; In this case&#44; the simplest hypothesis would be that the stock-outs are the result of a worrying fragility in the production system for drugs&#46; There are many reasons why drug production may stop in a given plant for weeks or perhaps months&#44; for example&#44; the lack of raw materials&#44; down time to modernize facilities or adapt them to new quality requirements&#44; or a change in strategy&#46; And today&#44; in our globalized world&#44; a stoppage in a certain plant may lead to stock-out on a global scale&#46; At present&#44; a single production center &#40;in a small settlement in Europe&#44; the United States&#44; or Asia&#41; may produce a given drug for half the world&#44; or maybe even the entire world&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In view of the growing interest in stock-outs among health professionals&#44; in June 2013 the International Summit on Drug Shortages&#44; organized by the International Pharmaceutical Federation &#40;FIP&#41;&#44; with the Canadian Pharmacists Association as co-organizers&#44; was held with the aim of &#8220;providing a forum to discuss the causes&#44; impacts&#44; and solutions to the global issue of medicine shortages through a multi-stakeholder approach involving representatives from governments&#44; healthcare practitioners and professional bodies&#44; industry&#44; and patients&#46;&#8221;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a></p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In that summit&#44; after considering the contributions from different experts&#44; it was concluded that the source of drug stock-outs could be classified according to factors that affect demand and those that affect distribution&#46; The main reasons are now summarized &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Impact</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The reader will have observed that an alignment of circumstances has resulted in a system that is obliged to guarantee access to drugs when and where they are needed but that is really a house of cards&#46; The consequences of this are lack of availability of drugs&#44; delayed treatments&#44; and even switches to alternative drugs that are often less effective&#46;</p><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The FIP summit highlighted some really interesting findings that provide evidence of the scope of the problem&#46; In the United States alone&#44; &#8220;data presented at the conference from the University of Utah Drug Information Center&#44; showed an increase in the number of new shortages from 58-88 in 2002-2007 to 267 in 2011&#44; and 204 in 2012&#46; These new shortages are additional to unresolved shortages from previous years and therefore lead to an increase in the quarterly reports of active medicine shortages from 152 in early 2010 to 300 on early 2013&#46; This clearly demonstrates that&#44; despite the remedial measures taken&#44; the issue is far from declining in the USA&#46;&#8221;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a></p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results from a 2011 survey of 820 critical access hospitals were also presented&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> These showed that the physician was required to take difficult decisions&#44; and that the patient may receive poorer care&#44; require hospital admission&#44; or even die &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table 2</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Individualized Medicine&#44; a Good Alternative</span><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At this point&#44; we would like to ponder whether acquiring a drug from neighboring countries from time to time is the best solution in the face of an increasingly global and simultaneous problem of stock-outs&#44; or whether&#44; in contrast&#44; it would be worthwhile anticipating these problems and exploring other complementary options&#44; analyzing in depth their potential for avoiding future emergencies&#46;</p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As pharmacists&#44; we believe that this is a golden opportunity to highlight the value of individualized medicine&#44; a resource already available to our health system&#44; although one that both physicians and patients have never really trusted&#46;</p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Pharmacopeias such as the United States one refer to pharmaceutical compounding as &#8220;essential in pharmacy practice and essential for an appropriate health protection system&#46;&#8221;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a></p><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Among the uses of pharmaceutical compounding recognized by the General Council of Spanish Pharmacist Associations are the following<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a>&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0010"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0025"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">1&#46;</span><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Cover therapeutic gaps&#58; the appearance of industrial medications has simplified the catalogue of available pharmacotherapeutic options&#46; Pharmaceutical compounding can cover therapeutic gaps&#46; This is essential in certain patients or diseases for which industrially available drugs specific for their needs are not available&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0030"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;</span><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Solve problems of stock-outs&#47;withdrawal of industrially produced drugs&#58; pharmaceutical compounding guarantees continuity of treatments more quickly than other options&#44; such as importing foreign drugs&#44; with notable costs for the patient or Spanish National Health System&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0035"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3&#46;</span><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Facilitate administration to the patient&#58; this is associated with an improvement in therapeutic adherence and&#44; therefore&#44; improved therapeutic outcomes&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0040"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">4&#46;</span><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Replacement of excipients in case of allergies&#44; poor tolerability&#44; interactions&#44; interference with analysis&#44; or physical-chemical incompatibilities with other products&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0045"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">5&#46;</span><p id="par0170" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Customization of treatment to the characteristics of the patient&#58; dose adjustment or modification of the pharmaceutical form to adapt it to the individual patient characteristics and with the most appropriate dosing regimen&#46; The variability of response to drugs is the norm&#44; as demonstrated by pharmacogenomics and nanopharmacy&#44; and not the exception&#46; Moreover&#44; customization of treatment is important for improving the pharmaceutical care of the patient&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0050"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">6&#46;</span><p id="par0175" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Reduce the risk of possible adverse reactions&#44; which helps reduce the risk of onset of possible adverse drug reactions&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0055"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">7&#46;</span><p id="par0180" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the case of patients admitted to hospital&#44; the hospital pharmacy services can attend to the therapeutic needs of a significant percentage of patients for whom commercial options are not available&#46;</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0185" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Accessibility as well as quality are thus guaranteed&#46; Given the specific regulations&#44; pharmacies that do not have the means for pharmaceutical compounding with guaranteed quality should subcontract the process to other specialized pharmacies&#46; Thus&#44; the patient always accesses the service by going directly to his or her reference pharmacy&#44; where he or she will also receive all the information on the conditions of access to the drug and its use&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0020">Some Examples of Replacement Pharmaceutical Compounding for Dermatological Drugs With Stock-Outs or Those That Have Been Deregistered for Commercial Reasons</span><p id="par0190" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0015">Table 3</a> shows some of the compounded products that we are currently producing as a result of stock-outs of the commercial product&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Conclusions</span><p id="par0195" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">If individualized drugs are already successfully used for personalizing treatments&#44; why shouldn&#8217;t the authorities&#44; physicians&#44; and pharmacists explore their potential in other situations such as stock-outs&#63;</p><p id="par0200" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is important to note that these are not second rate drugs&#44; but are supported by the most robust evidence within the pharmaceutical industry&#46; Production&#44; with application of all the appropriate know-how&#44; of a drug tailored to the patient&#39;s needs&#44; would also demonstrate&#44; once more&#44; that in this globalized world with economies of scale&#44; sometimes it is the small things that define our humanity&#46; Thus&#44; pharmaceutical compounding is at least necessary to provide a coherent and integral care system&#46;</p><p id="par0205" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally&#44; we make a call to the health authorities&#44; as well as the physicians and patients themselves&#44; to be aware of this instrument&#8212;pharmaceutical compounding of individualized medicines&#8212;which can contribute in its small way to the quality and overall sustainability of our beloved health system&#46; It is essential that the system itself places trust in its own health professionals&#44; including of course the pharmacists&#44; because they are its most valuable resource and the only ones able to compensate and complement the gaps left by the large drug companies&#46; Such individuals will always genuinely have the best interests of the patients at heart&#46;</p></span></span>"
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