title: Canadian prescription drug costs surpass 18 billion dollars.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. morgan@chspr.ubc.ca
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morgan
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D016527:Drug Costs / Q000639:trends*; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000191:economics; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000191:economics*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data