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Oncologist ; 25(1): e130-e137, 2020 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31506392

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BACKGROUND: Canada has an established publicly funded health care system with a complex drug approval and funding process. After proof of efficacy (POE; key publication/presentation) and before becoming publicly accessible, each drug undergoes a Health Canada approval process, a health technology assessment (HTA), a pricing negotiation, and finally individual provincial funding agreements. We quantified potential life-years lost during this process. METHODS: We analyzed drugs for advanced lung, breast, and colorectal cancer that underwent the HTA process between 2011 and 2016. Life-years lost were calculated by multiplying documented improvement in progression-free and overall survival, number of eligible patients, and time from POE to first public funding. For conservative calculation, we assumed all eligible patients in Canada had access at the time of first public funding, whereas in reality provinces fund at different time points. RESULTS: We analyzed 21 drugs. Of these, 15 have been funded publicly. The time from POE to first public funding ranged from 14.0 to 99.2 months (median 26.6 months). Total overall life-years lost from POE to first public funding were 39,067 (lung 32,367; breast 6,691). Progression-free life-years lost from POE to first public funding were 48,037 (lung 9,139, breast 15,827, colorectal 23,071). CONCLUSION: The number of potential life-years lost during the drug regulatory and funding process in Canada is substantial, largely driven by delays to funding of colorectal cancer drugs. Recognizing that interprovincial differences exist and that eligible patients may not all receive a given drug, if even a fraction does so, the impact of delays remains substantive. Collaborative national initiatives are required to address this major barrier to treatment access. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Patients may spend lengthy periods of time awaiting access to new and effective cancer drugs. Patients with private drug insurance or personal funds or who reside in certain Canadian provinces may obtain some drugs sooner than others, potentially creating a two-tiered access system. The cancer drug access and public funding system must be expedited to improve equity.


Asunto(s)
Aprobación de Drogas/economía , Costos de los Medicamentos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Canadá , Humanos
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N Engl J Med ; 375(1): 44-53, 2016 Jul 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27332619

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BACKGROUND: In response to rising rates of opioid abuse and overdose, U.S. states enacted laws to restrict the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances. The effect of these laws on opioid use is unclear. METHODS: We tested associations between prescription-opioid receipt and state controlled-substances laws. Using Medicare administrative data for fee-for-service disabled beneficiaries 21 to 64 years of age who were alive throughout the calendar year (8.7 million person-years from 2006 through 2012) and an original data set of laws (e.g., prescription-drug monitoring programs), we examined the annual prevalence of beneficiaries with four or more opioid prescribers, prescriptions yielding a daily morphine-equivalent dose (MED) of more than 120 mg, and treatment for nonfatal prescription-opioid overdose. We estimated how opioid outcomes varied according to eight types of laws. RESULTS: From 2006 through 2012, states added 81 controlled-substance laws. Opioid receipt and potentially hazardous prescription patterns were common. In 2012 alone, 47% of beneficiaries filled opioid prescriptions (25% in one to three calendar quarters and 22% in every calendar quarter); 8% had four or more opioid prescribers; 5% had prescriptions yielding a daily MED of more than 120 mg in any calendar quarter; and 0.3% were treated for a nonfatal prescription-opioid overdose. We observed no significant associations between opioid outcomes and specific types of laws or the number of types enacted. For example, the percentage of beneficiaries with a prescription yielding a daily MED of more than 120 mg did not decline after adoption of a prescription-drug monitoring program (0.27 percentage points; 95% confidence interval, -0.05 to 0.59). CONCLUSIONS: Adoption of controlled-substance laws was not associated with reductions in potentially hazardous use of opioids or overdose among disabled Medicare beneficiaries, a population particularly at risk. (Funded by the National Institute on Aging and others.).


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Analgésicos Opioides/uso terapéutico , Personas con Discapacidad/estadística & datos numéricos , Prescripciones de Medicamentos/estadística & datos numéricos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Mal Uso de Medicamentos de Venta con Receta/estadística & datos numéricos , Adulto , Sobredosis de Droga/epidemiología , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Planes de Aranceles por Servicios , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Medicare , Persona de Mediana Edad , Gobierno Estatal , Estados Unidos/epidemiología , Adulto Joven
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Value Health ; 22(3): 322-331, 2019 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30832970

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BACKGROUND: Risk-sharing arrangements (RSAs) can be used to mitigate uncertainty about the value of a drug by sharing the financial risk between payer and pharmaceutical company. We evaluated the projected impact of alternative RSAs for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapies based on real-world data. METHODS: Data on treatment patterns of Dutch NSCLC patients from four different hospitals were used to perform "what-if" analyses, evaluating the costs and benefits likely associated with various RSAs. In the scenarios, drug costs or refunds were based on response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) response, survival compared to the pivotal trial, treatment duration, or a fixed cost per patient. Analyses were done for erlotinib, gemcitabine/cisplatin, and pemetrexed/platinum for metastatic NSCLC, and gemcitabine/cisplatin, pemetrexed/cisplatin, and vinorelbine/cisplatin for nonmetastatic NSCLC. RESULTS: Money-back guarantees led to moderate cost reductions to the payer. For conditional treatment continuation schemes, costs and outcomes associated with the different treatments were dispersed. When price was linked to the outcome, the payer's drug costs reduced by 2.5% to 26.7%. Discounted treatment initiation schemes yielded large cost reductions. Utilization caps mainly reduced the costs of erlotinib treatment (by 16%). Given a fixed cost per patient based on projected average use of the drug, risk sharing was unfavorable to the payer because of the lower than projected use. The impact of RSAs on a national scale was dispersed. CONCLUSIONS: For erlotinib and pemetrexed/platinum, large cost reductions were observed with risk sharing. RSAs can mitigate uncertainty around the incremental cost-effectiveness or budget impact of drugs, but only when the type of arrangement matches the setting and type of uncertainty.


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Carcinoma de Pulmón de Células no Pequeñas/tratamiento farmacológico , Seguro de Costos Compartidos/métodos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/métodos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/tratamiento farmacológico , Ensayos Clínicos Pragmáticos como Asunto/métodos , Anciano , Antineoplásicos/economía , Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico , Carcinoma de Pulmón de Células no Pequeñas/economía , Seguro de Costos Compartidos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Clorhidrato de Erlotinib/economía , Clorhidrato de Erlotinib/uso terapéutico , Femenino , Humanos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/economía , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pemetrexed/economía , Pemetrexed/uso terapéutico , Ensayos Clínicos Pragmáticos como Asunto/economía , Estudios Retrospectivos , Vinorelbina/economía , Vinorelbina/uso terapéutico
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Value Health ; 22(3): 293-302, 2019 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30832967

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BACKGROUND: Migraine is a common, chronic, disabling headache disorder. Triptans, used as an acute treatment for migraine, are available via prescription in Australia. An Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) committee rejected reclassifying sumatriptan and zolmitriptan from prescription medicine to pharmacist-only between 2005 and 2009, largely on the basis of concerns about patient risk. Nevertheless, pharmacist-only triptans may reduce migraine duration and free up healthcare resources. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of reclassifying triptans from prescription-only to pharmacist-only in Australia. METHODS: The study design included decision-analytic modeling combining data from various sources. Behavior before and after reclassification was estimated using medical practitioner and patient surveys and also administrative data. Health outcomes included migraine frequency and duration as well as adverse events (AEs) discussed by the TGA committee. Efficacy and AEs were estimated using randomized controlled trials and observational studies. RESULTS: Reclassifying triptans will reduce migraine duration but increase AEs. This will result in 337 quality-adjusted life-years gained at an increased cost of A$5.9 million over 10 years for all Australian adults older than 15 years (19.6 million). The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was estimated to be A$17 412/quality-adjusted life-year gained. CONCLUSIONS: The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio is likely to be considered cost-effective by Australian decision makers. Serotonin syndrome, a key concern of the TGA committee, had little impact on the results. Further research is needed regarding pharmacist-only triptan use by migraineurs currently using over-the-counter medicines and by nonmigraineurs, the efficacy of triptans, and the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular AEs and chronic headaches with triptans.


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Análisis Costo-Beneficio/métodos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/métodos , Trastornos Migrañosos/tratamiento farmacológico , Trastornos Migrañosos/economía , Oxazolidinonas/clasificación , Sumatriptán/clasificación , Triptaminas/clasificación , Australia/epidemiología , Análisis Costo-Beneficio/tendencias , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Médicos Generales/economía , Humanos , Trastornos Migrañosos/epidemiología , Medicamentos sin Prescripción/clasificación , Medicamentos sin Prescripción/economía , Medicamentos sin Prescripción/uso terapéutico , Oxazolidinonas/economía , Oxazolidinonas/uso terapéutico , Farmacéuticos/economía , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/clasificación , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/economía , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/uso terapéutico , Agonistas del Receptor de Serotonina 5-HT1/clasificación , Agonistas del Receptor de Serotonina 5-HT1/economía , Agonistas del Receptor de Serotonina 5-HT1/uso terapéutico , Sumatriptán/economía , Sumatriptán/uso terapéutico , Triptaminas/economía , Triptaminas/uso terapéutico
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J Leg Med ; 39(2): 177-211, 2019.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31503531

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The federal government subsidizes the research and development of prescription medications. Thus, a captivating critique of expensive medications is that prices are too high because of taxpayer co-financing. This critique is often framed in terms of "paying-twice"-first for the research and second through the above market pricing of resulting products. Reasonable pricing clauses-which place some kind of pricing limitation on the exercise of license or patent rights governing a federally funded medication-are one proposed policy tool for addressing the pay-twice critique. This article provides increased analytical clarity as well as historical context to present-day debates about the privatization of federally funded research and prescription drug pricing. It makes three arguments. First, despite its pervasiveness and intuitive plausibility, the pay-twice critique is subject to differing interpretations which has important implications for the appropriateness of proposed solutions. Second, despite their initial attractiveness, the costs, necessity, and effectiveness of reasonable pricing clauses render the wisdom of this policy tool uncertain. However, third, given continued interest in reasonable pricing clauses, the NIH's previous experience with such a policy offers some useful lessons.


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Costos de los Medicamentos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Legislación de Medicamentos/economía , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/economía , Honorarios por Prescripción de Medicamentos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Costos y Análisis de Costo/economía , Costos y Análisis de Costo/legislación & jurisprudencia , Gobierno Federal , Financiación Gubernamental , National Institutes of Health (U.S.) , Investigación Farmacéutica/economía , Investigación Farmacéutica/legislación & jurisprudencia , Privatización/economía , Privatización/legislación & jurisprudencia , Estados Unidos
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Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol ; 55: 191-206, 2015.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25149920

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The cost of drugs is a major and rapidly rising component of health-care expenditures. We survey recent literature on the ethics and economics of skyrocketing pharmaceutical prices and find that advances in economic research have increased the sharpness and focus of the ethically based calls to increase access by modifying patent protection and reducing prices. In some cases, research supports ethical arguments for broader access. Other research suggests that efforts to broaden access result in unintended consequences for innovation and the medical needs of patients. Both ethicists and economists need to be more cognizant of the real clinical settings in which physicians practice medicine with real patients. Greater cross-disciplinary interaction among economists, ethicists, and physicians can help reduce the disjunction between innovation and access and improve access and patient care. This dialogue will impact private industry and may spur new multistakeholder paradigms for drug discovery, development, and pricing.


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Comercio/economía , Comercio/ética , Costos de los Medicamentos/ética , Industria Farmacéutica/economía , Industria Farmacéutica/ética , Preparaciones Farmacéuticas/economía , Publicidad/economía , Publicidad/ética , Comercio/legislación & jurisprudencia , Difusión de Innovaciones , Costos de los Medicamentos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Industria Farmacéutica/legislación & jurisprudencia , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Regulación Gubernamental , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/economía , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/ética , Disparidades en Atención de Salud/economía , Disparidades en Atención de Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia , Humanos , Comercialización de los Servicios de Salud/economía , Comercialización de los Servicios de Salud/ética , Asistencia Médica/economía , Asistencia Médica/ética , Patentes como Asunto/ética , Preparaciones Farmacéuticas/provisión & distribución , Rol del Médico
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Int J Technol Assess Health Care ; 33(3): 365-370, 2017 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28831942

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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the analysis, discussion, and challenges of the price and reimbursement process of medicinal products in Bulgaria in the period 2000-15 and health technology assessment (HTA) role in these processes. METHODS: The dynamics of the reform, with respect to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, are tracked by documentary review of regulations, articles, and reports in the European Union (EU), as well as analytical and historical analysis. RESULTS: Pricing and reimbursement processes have passed through a variety of committees between 2003 and 2012. Separate units for pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products were established in Bulgaria for the first time, in 2013, when an independent body, the National Council at Prices and Reimbursement of Medicinal Products, was set up to approve medicinal products with new international nonproprietary names (INN) for reimbursement in Bulgaria. Over the course of 2 years (2013-14), thirty-three new INNs were approved for reimbursement. In December 2015, a new HTA body was introduced, and assigned to the National Centre for Public Health and Analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Although Bulgaria has current legislation on pricing and reimbursement which is in accordance with the EU rules, there is no mechanism for reporting and monitoring these processes or the financial resources annually, so as to provide an overall objective assessment and analysis by year. Therefore, this financial assessment should become a national policy objective for the future.


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Costos y Análisis de Costo/métodos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/organización & administración , Reembolso de Seguro de Salud/normas , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/organización & administración , Bulgaria , Costos y Análisis de Costo/normas , Atención a la Salud/organización & administración , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Humanos , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/economía , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/legislación & jurisprudencia
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Int J Technol Assess Health Care ; 33(3): 339-344, 2017 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28438231

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OBJECTIVES: In the Czech Republic, the health technology assessment (HTA) approaches have been implemented in evaluation of medicinal products since 2008. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of the implementation of HTA and different levels thereof in the evaluation process conducted by the State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL) and to describe the impact of HTA on the entrance of new medicinal entities into out-patient healthcare system including highly innovative and orphan drugs. METHODS: Materials supporting this overview were collected using the records in the database of administrative proceedings of SUKL, in-house standard operating procedures, and the legislation in force. Based on these sources as well as the hands-on knowledge of the current practice, a brief description of the general rules of administrative proceedings involving HTA of varying complexity was elaborated. Characteristic features of the individual types of proceedings, basic differences in the complexity of HTA employed, and its most important challenges were summarized. RESULTS: In Czech Republic, HTA in the formal administrative proceedings ensures a transparent process of introduction of new medicinal products into clinical practice and leaves space for restriction of reimbursement conditions to minimize budget impact. CONCLUSIONS: As a robust as well as pragmatic HTA methodology has been implemented by SUKL, relevant stakeholders (marketing authorization holders, Health Care Funds, clinical expert groups) are now able to influence reimbursement of new technologies.


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Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/organización & administración , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/normas , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/organización & administración , Análisis Costo-Beneficio , República Checa , Atención a la Salud/organización & administración , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Humanos , Reembolso de Seguro de Salud , Uso Fuera de lo Indicado/normas , Producción de Medicamentos sin Interés Comercial/normas , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/economía , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/legislación & jurisprudencia
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Int J Technol Assess Health Care ; 33(3): 345-349, 2017 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28434416

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OBJECTIVES: The aim of our study was to describe approaches to health technology assessment (HTA) for medicines in the Slovak healthcare system and the related decision-making processes concerning reimbursement for medicines. METHODS: Analysis of the Slovak legislative framework related to HTA and the reimbursement process for medicines was performed. Additionally, current practices of the Working Group for Pharmacoeconomics, Clinical Outcomes and Health Technology Assessment of the Slovak Ministry of Health were evaluated. RESULTS: In Slovakia, there is always at least one treatment available in each determined therapeutic class with no co-payment. HTA is becoming an established method for the evaluation of cost-effectiveness of medicines in Slovak healthcare policy. The majority of decision makers within Slovakia support the idea of increased use of and the quality and efficiency of HTA methods. However, it is crucial to overcome several practical barriers to facilitate progress in the field of HTA in the Slovak Republic. CONCLUSIONS: It can be seen that participation within the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA JA 2 and EUnetHTA JA 3 projects) has significantly improved the quality of the process of HTA in Slovakia. Further legislative activities in this field are required due to the approved strategy for European Union cooperation on HTA.


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Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/organización & administración , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/normas , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/organización & administración , Análisis Costo-Beneficio , Costos y Análisis de Costo/métodos , Toma de Decisiones , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Política de Salud , Humanos , Reembolso de Seguro de Salud , Cooperación Internacional , Medicamentos bajo Prescripción/economía , Eslovaquia , Medicina Estatal/organización & administración , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/economía , Evaluación de la Tecnología Biomédica/legislación & jurisprudencia
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BMC Public Health ; 16: 668, 2016 07 29.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27473400

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BACKGROUND: Government social assistance payments seek to alleviate poverty and address survival needs, but their monthly disbursement may cue increases in illicit drug use. This cue may be magnified when assistance is disbursed simultaneously across the population. Synchronized payments have been linked to escalations in drug use and unintended but severe drug-related harms, including overdose, as well as spikes in demand for health, social, financial and police services. METHODS/DESIGN: The TASA study examines whether changing payment timing and frequency can mitigate drug-related harm associated with synchronized social assistance disbursement. The study is a parallel arm multi-group randomized controlled trial in which 273 participants are randomly allocated for six assistance cycles to a control or one of two intervention arms on a 1:1:1 basis. Intervention arm participants receive their payments: (1) monthly; or (2) semi-monthly, in each case on days that are not during the week when cheques are normally issued. The study partners with a community-based credit union that has developed a system to vary social assistance payment timing. The primary outcome is a 40 % increase in drug use during the 3 days beginning with cheque issue day compared to other days of the month. Bi-weekly follow-up interviews collect participant information on this and secondary outcomes of interest, including drug-related harm (e.g. non-fatal overdose), exposure to violence and health service utilization. Self-reported data will be supplemented with participant information from health, financial, police and government administrative databases. A longitudinal, nested, qualitative parallel process evaluation explores participant experiences, and a cost-effectiveness evaluation of different disbursement scenarios will be undertaken. Outcomes will be compared between control and intervention arms to identify the impacts of alternative disbursement schedules on drug-related harm resulting from synchronized income assistance. DISCUSSION: This structural RCT benefits from strong community partnerships, highly detailed outcome measurement, robust methods of randomization and data triangulation with third party administrative databases. The study will provide evidence regarding the potential importance of social assistance program design as a lever to support population health outcomes and service provision for populations with a high prevalence of substance use. TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT02457949 Registered 13 May 2015.


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Drogas Ilícitas/provisión & distribución , Asistencia Pública , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/prevención & control , Adulto , Colombia Británica , Costos de los Medicamentos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/etiología , Factores de Tiempo , Adulto Joven
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Bull World Health Organ ; 93(9): 606-13, 2015 Sep 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26478624

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OBJECTIVE: To review the pharmaceutical sector in Cyprus in terms of the availability and affordability of medicines and to explore pharmaceutical policy options for the national health system finance reform expected to be introduced in 2016. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews in April 2014 with senior representatives from seven key national organizations involved in pharmaceutical care. The captured data were coded and analysed using the predetermined themes of pricing, reimbursement, prescribing, dispensing and cost sharing. We also examined secondary data provided by the Cypriot Ministry of Health; these data included the prices and volumes of prescription medicines in 2013. FINDINGS: We identified several key issues, including high medicine prices, underuse of generic medicines and high out-of-pocket drug spending. Most stakeholders recommended that the national government review existing pricing policies to ensure medicines within the forthcoming national health system are affordable and available, introduce a national reimbursement system and incentivize the prescribing and dispensing of generic medicines. There were disagreements over how to (i) allocate responsibilities to governmental agencies in the national health system, (ii) reconcile differences in opinion between stakeholders and (iii) raise awareness among patients, physicians and pharmacists about the benefits of greater generic drug use. CONCLUSION: In Cyprus, if the national health system is going to provide universal health coverage in a sustainable fashion, then the national government must address the current issues in the pharmaceutical sector. Importantly, the country will need to increase the market share of generic medicines to contain drug spending.


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Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos , Reforma de la Atención de Salud , Programas Nacionales de Salud/tendencias , Seguro de Costos Compartidos , Chipre , Prescripciones de Medicamentos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/tendencias , Reforma de la Atención de Salud/economía , Reforma de la Atención de Salud/tendencias , Programas Nacionales de Salud/economía , Sector Público , Mecanismo de Reembolso
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Int J Equity Health ; 14: 124, 2015 Nov 05.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26541292

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BACKGROUND: Equitable access to essential medicines is a major challenge for policy-makers world-wide, including Central and Eastern European countries. Member States of the European Union situated in Central and Eastern Europe have publicly funded pharmaceutical reimbursement systems that should promote accessibility and affordability of, at least essential medicines. However, there is no knowledge whether socioeconomic inequalities exist in these countries. Against this backdrop, this study analyses whether socioeconomic determinants influence the use of prescribed and non-prescribed medicines in eight Central and Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia). Further, the study discusses observed (in)equalities in medicine use in the context of the pharmaceutical policy framework and the implementation in these countries. METHODS: The study is based on cross-sectional data from the first wave of the European Health Interview Survey (2007-2009). Multivariate logistic regression analyses were carried out to determine the association between socioeconomic status (measured by employment status, education, income; controlled for age, gender, health status) and medicine use (prescribed and non-prescribed medicines). This was supplemented by a pharmaceutical policy analysis based on indicators in four policy dimensions (sustainable funding, affordability, availability and accessibility, and rational selection and use of medicines). RESULTS: Overall, the analysis showed a gradient favouring individuals from higher socioeconomic groups in the consumption of non-prescribed medicines in the eight surveyed countries, and for prescribed medicines in three countries (Latvia, Poland, Romania). The pharmaceutical systems in the eight countries were, to varying degrees, characterized by a lack of (public) funding, thus resulting in high and growing shares of private financing (including co-payments for prescribed medicines), inefficiencies in the selection of medicines into reimbursement and limitations in medicines availability. CONCLUSION: Pharmaceutical policies aiming at reducing inequalities in medicine use require not only a consideration of the role of co-payments and other private expenditure but also adequate investment in medicines and transparent and clear processes regarding the inclusion of medicines into reimbursement.


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Costos de los Medicamentos/estadística & datos numéricos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Gastos en Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/economía , Disparidades en Atención de Salud/economía , Factores Socioeconómicos , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Estudios Transversales , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/métodos , Europa Oriental/epidemiología , Femenino , Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Encuestas Epidemiológicas , Disparidades en Atención de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev ; (5): CD007017, 2015 May 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25966337

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BACKGROUND: Growing expenditures on prescription medicines represent a major challenge to many health systems. Cap and co-payment policies are intended as an incentive to deter unnecessary or marginal utilisation, and to reduce third-party payer expenditures by shifting parts of the financial burden from insurers to patients, thus increasing their financial responsibility for prescription medicines. Direct patient payment policies include caps (maximum numbers of prescriptions or medicines that are reimbursed), fixed co-payments (patients pay a fixed amount per prescription or medicine), co-insurance (patients pay a percentage of the price), ceilings (patients pay the full price or part of the cost up to a ceiling, after which medicines are free or are available at reduced cost) and tier co-payments (differential co-payments usually assigned to generic and brand medicines). This is the first update of the original review. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of cap and co-payment (cost-sharing) policies on use of medicines, healthcare utilisation, health outcomes and costs (expenditures). SEARCH METHODS: For this update, we searched the following databases and websites: The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (including the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group Specialised Register, Cochrane Library; MEDLINE, Ovid; EMBASE, Ovid; IPSA, EBSCO; EconLit, ProQuest; Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest; PAIS International, ProQuest; INRUD Bibliography; WHOLIS, WHO; LILACS), VHL; Global Health Library WHO; PubMed, NHL; SCOPUS; SciELO, BIREME; OpenGrey; JOLIS Library Network; OECD Library; World Bank e-Library; World Health Organization, WHO; World Bank Documents & Reports; International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), WHO; ClinicalTrials.gov, NIH. We searched all databases during January and February 2013, apart from SciELO, which we searched in January 2012, and ICTRP and ClinicalTrials.gov, which we searched in March 2014. SELECTION CRITERIA: We defined policies in this review as laws, rules or financial or administrative orders made by governments, non-government organisations or private insurers. We included randomised controlled trials, non-randomised controlled trials, interrupted time series studies, repeated measures studies and controlled before-after studies of cap or co-payment policies for a large jurisdiction or system of care. To be included, a study had to include an objective measure of at least one of the following outcomes: medicine use, healthcare utilisation, health outcomes or costs (expenditures). DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two review authors independently extracted data and assessed study limitations. We reanalysed time series data for studies with sufficient data, if appropriate analyses were not reported. MAIN RESULTS: We included 32 full-text articles (17 new) reporting evaluations of 39 different interventions (one study - Newhouse 1993 - comprises five papers). We excluded from this update eight controlled before-after studies included in the previous version of this review, because they included only one site in their intervention or control groups. Five papers evaluated caps, and six evaluated a cap with co-insurance and a ceiling. Six evaluated fixed co-payment, two evaluated tiered fixed co-payment, 10 evaluated a ceiling with fixed co-payment and 10 evaluated a ceiling with co-insurance. Only one evaluation was a randomised trial. The certainty of the evidence was found to be generally low to very low.Increasing the amount of money that people pay for medicines may reduce insurers' medicine expenditures and may reduce patients' medicine use. This may include reductions in the use of life-sustaining medicines as well as medicines that are important in treating chronic conditions and medicines for asymptomatic conditions. These types of interventions may lead to small decreases in or uncertain effects on healthcare utilisation. We found no studies that reliably reported the effects of these types of interventions on health outcomes. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: The diversity of interventions and outcomes addressed across studies and differences in settings, populations and comparisons made it difficult to summarise results across studies. Cap and co-payment polices may reduce the use of medicines and reduce medicine expenditures for health insurers. However, they may also reduce the use of life-sustaining medicines or medicines that are important in treating chronic, including symptomatic, conditions and, consequently, could increase the use of healthcare services. Fixed co-payment with a ceiling and tiered fixed co-payment may be less likely to reduce the use of essential medicines or to increase the use of healthcare services.


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Seguro de Costos Compartidos , Costos de los Medicamentos , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Honorarios Farmacéuticos , Preparaciones Farmacéuticas/economía , Reembolso de Seguro de Salud/economía
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Psychiatr Danub ; 27 Suppl 1: S309-14, 2015 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26417786

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BACKGROUND: Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in European countries. In countries with repressive cannabis policies, prevalence is not lower than in those with tolerant laws. Repressive policies not only have uncertain benefits but they are also expensive. Economists tend to believe that good public policies minimize social costs; that is, they help to improve collective wellbeing at a lower cost. METHOD: The paper draws on a review of international literature on cannabis legislative models around the world. After a description of some of the fundamental concepts of a market economy, several existing policy scenarios will be presented and analyzed from an economic perspective. Strength and weaknesses will be summarized for each alternative. RESULTS: In addition to consumption tolerance in countries such as the Netherlands, recent decriminalization of domestic markets in the Unites States and Uruguay present alternatives to reduce the negative impact of cannabis on society. Earlier initiation age and rise in consumption are unintended potential consequences of decriminalization that need to be addressed by public authorities when designing a liberalized cannabis policy environment. Price is a key variable that needs to be addressed to prevent a rise in consumption. CONCLUSION: Repressive cannabis policies are expensive and have limited impact on consumption. Consumption legalization significantly reduces expenses for repression and law enforcement, allowing for the allocation of more resources to other targets such as education and prevention. With legalization of supply along with consumption, repression and law enforcement costs are reduced even further. Moreover, a legal market would create employment and generate tax revenues that could be allocated to the prevention of increased consumption. Legalizing cannabis would not lead to a sudden rise in consumption, providing the duty imposed by the state kept the product at its current price.


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Cannabis , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Política de Salud/economía , Política de Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia , Drogas Ilícitas/economía , Drogas Ilícitas/legislación & jurisprudencia , Aplicación de la Ley , Abuso de Marihuana/economía , Política Pública/legislación & jurisprudencia , Comercio/economía , Comercio/legislación & jurisprudencia , Comparación Transcultural , Europa (Continente) , Humanos , Drogas Ilícitas/provisión & distribución , Masculino
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Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi ; 39(20): 4065-9, 2014 Oct.
Artículo en Zh | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25751964

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The purpose of the secondary exploitation of Chinese medicine is to improve the quality of Chinese medicine products, enhance core competitiveness, for better use in clinical practice, and more effectively solve the patient suffering. Herbs, extraction, separation, refreshing, preparation and quality control are all involved in the industry promotion of Chinese medicine secondary exploitation of industrial production. The Chinese medicine quality improvement and industry promotion could be realized with the whole process of process optimization, quality control, overall processes improvement. Based on the "component structure theory", "multi-dimensional structure & process dynamic quality control system" and systematic and holistic character of Chinese medicine, impacts of whole process were discussed. Technology systems of Chinese medicine industry promotion was built to provide theoretical basis for improving the quality and efficacy of the secondary development of traditional Chinese medicine products.


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Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos/normas , Medicina Tradicional China/normas , Química Farmacéutica/economía , Química Farmacéutica/normas , China , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos/química , Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos/economía , Humanos , Medicina Tradicional China/economía , Control de Calidad
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Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi ; 39(20): 4050-3, 2014 Oct.
Artículo en Zh | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25751961

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Risk monitoring of new Chinese patent anti-hepatoma drugs is tracking recognized risks and residual risks, identifying emerging risk and ensure the implementation of the plan, estimating the process of reducing effectiveness. The paper is mainly through understanding the status of Chinese patent anti-hepatoma drugs, the content, characteristic and analysis method of dynamic risk monitoring, and then select the risk control indicators, collect risk information. Finally, puts forward the thought of anti-hepatoma drugs listed evaluation in our country, and try to establish the model of dynamic risk management of anti-hepatoma drugs.


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Antineoplásicos Fitogénicos/economía , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/tratamiento farmacológico , Descubrimiento de Drogas , Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos/economía , Neoplasias Hepáticas/tratamiento farmacológico , Vigilancia de Productos Comercializados , Antineoplásicos Fitogénicos/efectos adversos , Antineoplásicos Fitogénicos/uso terapéutico , Descubrimiento de Drogas/economía , Descubrimiento de Drogas/legislación & jurisprudencia , Descubrimiento de Drogas/organización & administración , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/economía , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/legislación & jurisprudencia , Control de Medicamentos y Narcóticos/organización & administración , Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos/efectos adversos , Medicamentos Herbarios Chinos/uso terapéutico , Humanos
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