A comparative study on the cost of new antibiotics and drugs of other therapeutic categories.

BACKGROUND: Drug treatment is becoming more expensive due to the increased cost for the introduction of new drugs, and there seems to be an uneven distribution of medication cost for different therapeutic categories. We hypothesized that the cost of new antimicrobial agents may differ from that of o...

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Main Authors: Matthew E Falagas, Konstantinos N Fragoulis, Ioannis Karydis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1762307?pdf=render