Investigating the procurement system for understanding seasonal influenza vaccine brand availability in Europe.
Anke L StuurmanCaterina RizzoMendel HaagPublished in: PloS one (2021)
At the country-level, brand diversity is generally lower for countries with national public tenders than for countries with regional public tenders or direct purchase. In only a few countries, procurement data at the brand level is both publicly available and timely. Therefore the usefulness of procurement data for prospective site-selection for brand-specific VE studies is limited.