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Annotated Bibliography: Measuring The Value Of Prescription Drugs

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Citation: Kaufman, David W., Judith P. Kelly, Lynn Rosenberg, Theresa E. Anderson, and Allen A. Mitchell. "Recent Patterns of Medication Use in the Ambulatory Adult Population of the United States." The Journal of the American Medical Association, 16 Jan. 2002. Web. 5 Oct. 2016. Information on the source: Quote: “Adverse reactions to drugs are among the leading causes of hospitalization and deaths in the country (Kaufman, Kelly, Rosenberg, Anderson & Mitchell).” Paraphrase: More people are using natural supplements alongside with their prescriptions from the doctors. A lot of times the patients do not inform their doctor about the use of these natural supplements. The natural supplements and prescribed medicine can have a bad reaction since …show more content…

Cohen. "Measuring the Value of Prescription Drugs." The New England Journal of Medicine, 31 Dec. 2015. Web. 4 Oct. 2016. Information on the source: Many individuals are upset over the fact that drug prices have been increasing. Drug companies need to focus on the value of drugs and making drugs that improve people’s well being so the drugs they make are what the customers want (Neumann & Cohen). The drug prices rising got compared to buying a car. This article talked about when people buy a car they often do not question how much it cost to make the car. They more so care about what the car can do for them. The authors of this article are saying that when people are buying drugs they need to focus on the effectiveness of the drug and if it will improve their health, rather than looking straight at the price of the drug and thinking it is too expensive. If one drug is more effective than another theoretically it should cost more money. This would be a good analogy someone could talk about when dealing with the topic of prescription drugs. Thoughts on the …show more content…

Peter J. Neumann and Joshua T. Cohen are both a part of the Center for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, both studied at Harvard. This would be a useful source to anyone writing about my topic since it is a recent article. This is an article supporting why prescription drugs prices are increasing and is a helpful angle to look at when thinking about prescription drugs prices rising as being a good or a bad thing. This is one of my scholarly sources coming from The New England Journal of Medicine. “Direct-To-Consumer Marketing of Prescription Drugs” Citation: Hollow, Matthew F. "Direct-To-Consumer Marketing of Prescription Drugs." CNS Drugs. 2nd ed. Vol. 18. N.p.: Springer International, n.d. 69-77. Feb. 2004. Web. 3 Oct. 2016. Information on the source: This source talks about how the use of direct-consumer-marketing in the past years has increased the growth in sales of the drugs being marketed and increased spending on prescription drugs in general. This source talked about two separate cases showing the pros and cons of direct-consumer-marketing marketing. In Case 1, a man saw a advertisement on TV that dealt with his illness and from this advertisement the man got the medicine being advertised and felt better in a few weeks. As with Case 2, a women has a illness that a doctor tells the family there is nothing that can be done about her illness. Later on the family sees an advertisement and insists the

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