Begosh, Allan; Goldsmith, John; Hass, Ed; Lutter, Randall W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Comparing the safety of prescription drugs over time is difficult due to the paucity of reliable quantitative measures of drug safety. Both the academic literature and popular press have focused on drug withdrawals as a proxy for breakdowns in the drug safety system. This metric, however, is...
