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- Title
Legal Concerns and the Influenza Vaccine Shortage.
- Authors
Mello, Michelle M.; Brennan, Troyen A.
- Abstract
Examines the contributory role of litigation in the influenza vaccine shortage and the extent to which greater insulation from liability may help avoid future shortages. Issue of liability for vaccine manufacturers; Lack of evidence of significant litigation involving the flu vaccine; Way that vaccine production decisions flow from a holistic judgment about the likely economic benefit from making vaccines versus other products; Assertion that liability concerns can and do have adverse effects on health care delivery.
- Subjects
PREVENTIVE medicine; LEGAL liability; INFLUENZA vaccines; CIVIL law; VACCINES; INFLUENZA viruses
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005, Vol 294, Issue 14, p1817
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.294.14.1817