Implications of global pricing policies of pharmaceuticals for access the innovative drugs: the case of trastuzumab in seven Latin American countries
s.l; s.n; [2012].
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ABSTRACT
Background:
Differential pricing (DP) on the basis of countries' purchasing power has been recommended by the WHO to secure more affordably priced medicines. However, in developing counties (DC) many innovative drugs have similar or even higher prices than in high-income countries (HIC). We conducted a cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis to estimate the impact of this pricing policy on the CE of trastuzumab in Latin-America (LA).Methods:
Model structure and a common methodology for identifying costs and resource use were agreed with country teams. A Markov model was designed to evaluate life years (LY), quality adjusted life years (QALYs) and costs \r\nfrom a health care sector perspective. A systematic search on effectiveness, local epidemiology and costs studies was undertaken to populate the model. A base case scenario using transition probabilities from trastuzumab clinical trials, and two alternative scenarios with transition probabilities adjusted to reflect breast cancer epidemiology in each country, were built to better fit local cancer prognosis.Findings:
Incremental discounted benefits and costs of the trastuzumab strategy ranged from 0·87 to 1·00 LY, 0·51 to 0·60 QALY and $24,683 to $60,835 (2012 US dollars). Incremental CE ratios ranged from $42,104 to $110,283 per QALY, equivalent to 3·6 gross domestic products per capita (GDPc) per QALY in Uruguay to up to 35·5 GDPc per QALY in Bolivia. The probabilistic sensitivity analysis showed a 0% probability that trastuzumab is CE if the willingness-to-pay (WTP) threshold is one GDPpc per QALY, and remains 0% at a WTP threshold of three GDPc except in Chile and Uruguay (probability 4·3% and 26·6% respectively).Conclusion:
Despite its proven CE in other settings, trastuzumab was not CE in LA at its current price. Better cooperation between the public and private sectors is still needed to make innovative drugs available and affordable in DC.
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Coleções:
Bases de dados temática
Contexto em Saúde:
Agenda de Saúde Sustentável para as Américas
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ODS3 - Saúde e Bem-Estar
Problema de saúde:
Objetivo 4: Financiamento para a saúde
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Objetivo 5 Medicamentos, vacinas e tecnologias sanitárias
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Meta 3.8 Atingir a cobertura universal de saúde
Base de dados:
BRISA/RedTESA
Assunto principal:
Custos e Análise de Custo
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Uso de Medicamentos
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Trastuzumab
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de avaliação
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Avaliação econômica em saúde
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Avaliação de tecnologias de saúde
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Estudo prognóstico
Aspecto:
Preferência do paciente
Idioma:
Inglês
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
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