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Drug costs in context: assessing drug costs in cost-of-illness analyses [PDF]
Cost-of-illness (COI) studies attempt to measure and describe the costs associated or attributed to a specific disease, but there are several considerations for measuring and interpreting drug costs estimates.
T Joseph Mattingly II, Shannon Weathers
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The impact of China's zero markup drug policy on drug costs for managing Parkinson's disease and its complications: an interrupted time series analysis [PDF]
BackgroundIn April 2009, the Chinese government launched Zero Markup Drug Policy (ZMDP) to adjust medical institutions' revenue and expenditure structures.ObjectiveThis study evaluated the impact of implementing ZMDP (as an intervention) on the drug ...
Ruilin Wang +12 more
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Kerry, Mansell, Yvonne, Shevchuk
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A systematic review of observational studies evaluating costs of adverse drug reactions
Francisco Batel Marques,1,2 Ana Penedones,1,2 Diogo Mendes,1,2 Carlos Alves,1,2 1CHAD – Centre for Health Technology Assessment and Drug Research, AIBILI – Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image, 2School of ...
Batel Marques F +3 more
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Digital transformation, green finance, and pharmaceutical affordability in China: a health economics perspective [PDF]
IntroductionDrug accessibility is a core challenge facing global public health systems, with financing costs directly affecting drug prices through cost-plus pricing mechanisms.
Jingdong Huang, Xinyi Zhang
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The challenges of access to innovative medicines with limited evidence in the European Union
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) fosters access to innovative medicines through accelerated procedures and flexibility in the authorization requirements for diseases with unmet medical needs, such as many rare diseases as well as oncological diseases.
Antonio Vallano +7 more
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This study aimed to compare drug costs and healthcare costs of a 1 year adjuvant course with intravenous biosimilar trastuzumab vs. subcutaneous reference trastuzumab in HER2-positive breast cancer from the Belgian hospital perspective. Our simulation is
Steven Simoens +2 more
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Treatment Access, Health Economics, and the Wave of a Magic Wand
New drugs are expensive, in part due to excessive drug development costs. Governments are trying to reduce drug prices. This can delay access to effective agents. A country’s access to new drugs correlates with prices they agree to pay.
David J. Stewart +2 more
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Background: Conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs are the first-line treatment to inhibit the progression of psoriatic arthritis.
Ronaldo José Faria +9 more
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High medication costs are one of the major barriers to patient adherence. Medication affordability might be improved by generic substitution. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of generic substitution mechanisms ...
Przemysław Kardas +7 more
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