A look at how shortages differed before COVID-19
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Thursday, December 15, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Medical Device Shortages
In the December 2022 issue of Health Affairs, Trinidad Beleche and coauthors investigate medical device shortages in the US from 2006-20.

Medical device shortages were particularly concerning during the COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed vulnerabilities in device markets. However, as Beleche and coauthors explain, “medical device shortages are neither a new phenomenon nor the result of the COVID-19 pandemic alone.”
Beleche and coauthors go on to examine trends in medical device shortages over time, and indicate that shortages before 2020 “stemmed from regulatory and enforcement actions resulting from product quality and manufacturing issues.”

Finally, Beleche and coauthors determine that the types of device shortages differed during COVID-19.

Shortages during the pandemic involved personal protective equipment, diagnostic testing supplies and equipment, ventilator-related medical devices, and vital sign monitoring while pre-pandemic shortages involved infusion pumps and related accessories, medical devices used in dialysis treatment, needles and syringes, ventilators, and sterilization products.
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