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- The paper introduces a method to evaluate whether drug treatments are appropriate by combining economic analysis, pharmacoepidemiology, and evidence-based information.
- It creates an index that compares expected health gains (EHG) to national drug spending (EXPEND) and actual health gains in patients (RHG).
- The main goal is to propose a ranking system for effectively distributing drug budgets within national health systems.
Article Abstract
This paper presents a method to assess drug treatment appropriateness, based on an original combination of economic analysis, pharmacoepidemiological techniques and evidence-based information. This method generates an index of clinical-economic appropriateness for the treatment under examination, by comparing the theoretically expected health gain (EHG) to the yearly national expenditure (EXPEND) on that drug and the amount of health that is thought to be gained in the 'real' patients (RHG). This paper reviews all the analyses conducted so far using this method, and discusses their main results. The primary aim of this article is to suggest a ranking approach for allocating the drug budgets of national health systems.
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