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Is this shortage temporary — or permanent?

Search any drug on the FDA's active shortage list for an estimated discontinuation risk, and the reasoning behind it.

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What this reads

Among drugs already on the FDA's shortage list, an estimate of whether the listing ends in a permanent discontinuation, or resolves as a temporary gap.

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How it's scored

A gradient-boosted model trained on public openFDA shortage records, validated with combination-grouped cross-validation (~0.93 AUC on unseen drug profiles). Supplier concentration is the dominant signal, alongside dosage form and therapeutic category — cross-checked by a separate survival analysis: low-supplier shortages reach a final determination in a median of ~260 days, versus years for the rest.

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Limitations

A signal to support your own judgment, not a certainty. Some categories rest on small sample sizes, and only drugs currently shortage-listed are indexed — this doesn't predict which drugs go into shortage next. Not a substitute for official FDA guidance.

Shortage and discontinuation records reflect information reported to the FDA and are for informational purposes only. For the most current supply status of a specific product, contact the manufacturer directly.