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industry, the wholesalers and retailers, prescribers, and patients. The objectives of pharmaceutical policies are … reduce the patients' demand for drugs by either denying or limiting reimbursement of products and providing an incentive for … patients to reduce their consumption of drugs. These interventions include defining a list either of drugs reimbursed (positive …
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The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) responds to requests by the Department of Health for guidance on the use of selected new and established technologies in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales. This paper asks whether the NICE methodological guidelines help...
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The resources available for healthcare are limited compared with demand, if not need, and all healthcare systems, regardless of their financing and organisation, employ mechanisms to ration or prioritise finite healthcare resources. This paper reviews alternative approaches that can be used to...
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Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are regularly used in health economics to elicit preferences for healthcare products and programmes. There is growing recognition that DCEs can provide more than information on preferences and, in particular, they have the potential to contribute more directly...
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in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and has been licensed for use in patients with highly … active RRMS (HARRMS). These patients are those who experience higher relapse rates and faster disability progression than the … natalizumab in RRMS patients. Additional data were sourced from the literature. A UK societal cost perspective was used in the …
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, intravenous (IV) ganciclovir, in the maintenance treatment of newly diagnosed cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in patients with … included IV ganciclovir induction, IV or oral ganciclovir maintenance and IV ganciclovir reinduction for patients whose CMV … assumed that patients received either inpatient or outpatient care, or both. The model provided an analysis in a Canadian …
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hospital costs increased significantly (p = 0.003) over the 3 periods analysed (before 1987, 1987 to 1995, and 1996 and beyond …-specific Gross Domestic Product Purchasing Power Parity converters. A summary of hospital cost estimates over time and by region …
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Patients with angina pectoris have a reduced quality of life because of their symptoms, impaired activity and anxiety …. A comparison of NHP scores with those of the healthy population revealed that patients with angina particularly seem to …
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