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How to navigate drug shortages with patients in primary care

Beneficial opportunities may exist beyond initial frustrations

Trudy Huyghebaert, Clark Svrcek and Thomas L. Perry
Canadian Family Physician February 2024; 70 (2) 85-86; DOI: https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.700285
Trudy Huyghebaert
Primary care pharmacist with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary in the Cumming School of Medicine and with Alberta Health Services in Calgary.
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Clark Svrcek
Family physician at the South Health Campus Teaching Centre and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.
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Thomas L. Perry
Co-chair of the Education Working Group and Editor of , both of the Therapeutics Initiative in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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vol. 70 no. 2 85-86
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.700285
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38383010

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The College of Family Physicians of Canada
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0008-350X
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  • Published online February 21, 2024.

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  1. Trudy Huyghebaert, PharmD ACPR CDE⇑
  1. Primary care pharmacist with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary in the Cumming School of Medicine and with Alberta Health Services in Calgary.
  1. Correspondence Dr Trudy Huyghebaert; email trudy.c.huyghebaert{at}gmail.com
  1. Clark Svrcek, MD CCFP
  1. Family physician at the South Health Campus Teaching Centre and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary.
  1. Thomas L. Perry, MD FRCPC
  1. Co-chair of the Education Working Group and Editor of Therapeutics Letter, both of the Therapeutics Initiative in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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