Patient perspective on reuse of medicines returned unused to the pharmacy

• In: Combating drug waste in health care systems on Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 10:00-10:30
• At: Buenos Aires (Argentina) (2016)
• Type: Presentation
• By: SEHMI, Kawaldip (International Alliance of Patients' Organizations, Isleworth, United Kingdom)
• Co-author(s): Kawaldip Singh Sehmi:
  
• Abstract:

  The global patients’ movement is divided on the cost and waste elements of the practice of reusing unused returned medicines (URM), but are unified on the safety elements. Patient opinion varies on URM depending upon:
  

  
  
  • Where the patient was from: low income countries (LICs) and high income countries (HICs)
  
  
  • If the patient was covered by a
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