shortages · Shortage signals
Package-NDC-level Drug Shortages observations, including source status, availability, presentation, dates, company, related operational information, and reason fields.
type
jsonb
scope
shortage
group
Shortage signals
sources
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Meaning
Package-NDC-level Drug Shortages observations, including source status, availability, presentation, dates, company, related operational information, and reason fields.
An observation is an operational FDA signal, not medical advice or a guarantee of local availability. Field presence follows the source status: availability is expected for Current observations, shortage_reason is optional even for Current observations, resolved_note applies to Resolved observations, and discontinued_date applies to To Be Discontinued observations but can be source-null. Non-applicable fields remain null; upstream contact details are not collected or retained.
Export shape
drugs fieldjson
{
"shortages": {
"source": "example"
},
"_provenance": {
"shortages": {
"source": "cms-sdud",
"source_url": "https://data.medicaid.gov/dataset/158a1baa-5506-400a-8ec3-97756f0b0536",
"effective": true
}
}
}Provenance
Field provenance follows the dataset contract: values are source-qualified, and records not cleared for the paid release stay out of commercial snapshot/API responses. Each release probes a bounded sample of this field's advertised evidence links; the check outcome is shown here, and a link that did not resolve renders as UNVERIFIED rather than as resolved.
No field-specific provenance caveat is configured for this field. Review source-level terms at /docs/sources.