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Improving access to effective and safe medicines is one of the major goals of all health systems. To achieve this goal, assessment is a fundamental phase of national medicine programs for access improvement. Collecting and compiling applicable indicators and impart a comprehensive framework for assessing access to medicine, are the aims of this study.

To investigate the published materials on access to medicines framework or indicators, a literature review with a systematic search was conducted using PubMed/ Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. The results were completed with a general search of documents in Iran Food and Drug Administration (IRFDA). Two independent researchers reviewed all the articles and documents. Thereafter the related indicators were extracted. In focused group discussion of …