E-DRUG: Updated International Drug Price Indicator Guide Available
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Dear Colleagues,
MSH is pleased to announce the availability of the 2014 edition of the
International Drug Price Indicator Guide
The Guide provides a spectrum of prices from 25 sources, including pharmaceutical suppliers,
international development organizations, and government agencies.
The Guide assists supply officers to determine the probable cost of pharmaceutical
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 2014 edition of the Guide includes almost 40 new items.
The therapeutic classes with the most new entries this year are
anti-tuberculosis medicines, cytotoxics, and diagnostics.
This edition of the Guide has prices for more than 1,100 products.
(Note: It is called the 2014 edition because the prices in it are from 2014.)
The Web version of the Guide is posted on the Manager's Electronic
Resource Center
http://erc.msh.org/priceguide
and contains data from the 1996 edition to the 2014 edition.
We encourage you to visit the site, where you can search for prices and download a
.pdf file of the Guide suitable for printing.
You can also download a spreadsheet with the median prices.
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
Julie E. Frye
Editor, International Drug Price Indicator Guide
Center for Pharmaceutical Management
Management Sciences for Health
4301 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 400
Arlington, VA 22203 USA
E-mail: jfrye@msh.org