Opportunity Strikes for Reducing Cancer Drug Waste: Bortezomib as an Example of Vial Mis-Sizing in Oncology
Hannah R Abrams1,2, Ashley W Chen2,3, Rahul Banerjee1,2
1Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
JCO Oncology Practice
|November 13, 2023
Abstract:
Mis-sized packaging leads to millions of dollars in drug waste annually. Now is the time to act.
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