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Drug Costs

"Drug Costs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL or PRESCRIPTION FEES).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Costs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Costs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 51 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2014 and 2016 and 2017 and 2020
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