Revisiting Canadian Drug Shortages

I am a medical student in Canada and I am spending the next two weeks revisiting our previous work looking at the state of prescription drug shortages in Canada.

I’ve already written a few introductory posts (see below) and I will be regularly updating this post with links to future posts so that this serves as a kind of orientation and table of contents.

You can find the code and data used to produce the analysis in my github repository:

https://github.com/pipitone/drug-shortages/tree/research_elective

Posts

1. Canadian drug shortages, redux
2. Drug shortage project aims
3. Python interface for canadian drug shortages
4. Revisiting Canadian Drug Shortages
5. Day 1 - new data, old charts
6. Day 2 - the flow of shortages
7. Day 3 - essential medicines
8. Day 4 - one particular drug
9. R package for drug shortages
10. Day 5 - potpourri
11. Day 6/7 - essential medicines, again
12. Day 8 - visualising shortages and dirty data
13. Day 9/10 - Ranitidine and Famotidine
14. Day 11 - What have we learned (part 1)
15. Day 12 - what have we learned (part 2)
16. Drug shortages project wrap-up