E-DRUG: New International Medical Products Price Guide Available
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the availability of the *International Medical
Products Price Guide.* This *Guide* was formerly known as the *International
Drug Price Indicator Guide.* We renamed it to better reflect the contents,
since it includes more than 80 non-pharmaceutical products. It still
provides a spectrum of prices from pharmaceutical suppliers, international
development organizations, and government agencies.
The *Guide* assists supply officers to determine the probable cost of
medical products for their programs, allows users to compare current prices
paid to prices available on the international market or assess the
potential financial impact of changes to a medicines list, and helps to
support rational medicine use education.
The latest edition of the *Guide* includes more than 35 new items, with
prices from 27 sources. This edition of the *Guide* has prices for more
than 1,100 products.
In addition to a new name and new data, we have launched a new website for
the *Guide*. Please visit the new web version at
www.mshpriceguide.org
It contains online data from the 1996 edition to the present edition and data
from 1991 in the printed versions.
You can search from this site as well as download .pdf files of the print version and spreadsheets with the median prices from each year.
The site allows you to define and save lists of products that interest you, so that you can compare your prices, estimate costs, or download data. The new site
graphs the historical prices for each product so that you can easily see
changes over time.
If you know of an organization or supplier who might contribute price
information to the next edition of the *Guide*, please contact me at
jfrye@msh.org. I would be delighted to discuss this with you.
Best regards,
Julie Frye
Editor, *International Medical Products Price Guide*
Julie Frye
Senior Technical Advisor
Pharmaceuticals & Health Technologies (PHT) Group
Management Sciences for Health
4301 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 400
Arlington, VA 22203 USA
E-mail: jfrye@msh.org