Publications by authors named "A Piera-Balbastre"

Background And Objective: More than 30% of patients with epilepsy have inadequate control of seizures with drug therapy. The goal of this study is to determine the budget impact (BI) of the introduction of brivaracetam to the portfolio of approved drugs in Spain as adjunctive therapy for the treatment of partial-onset epilepsy in patients over 16 years old with a 5-year time horizon in the Valencia Community, a Spanish region with a population of 5 million.

Methods: The BI model compares the pharmaceutical expenditure on antiepileptics in two scenarios: with and without brivaracetam.

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