Predictors of shortages of opioid analgesics in the US: Are the characteristics of the drug company the missing puzzle piece?

• Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Rosa.Rodriguez-Monguio@ucsf.edu

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America, Medication Outcomes Center, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5526-9395

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• Mahim Naveed,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medication Outcomes Center, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7434-7654

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• Enrique Seoane-Vazquez

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Irvine, California, United States of America, Economics Science Institute, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, Irvine, California, United States of America

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