Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons: Evidence and Methodology Guidance

Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons: Evidence and Methodology Guidance

Vogler, Sabine

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Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons establishes guiding principles for the study and implementation of pharmaceutical price surveys, analyses and comparisons. The book reviews current price studies in major pharmaceutical markets, accounting for the impact of methodological choices on findings, and explains at depth how and why differences in medicine prices manifest between and within different regions. The book provides practical guidance on how to do meaningful price analyses and comparisons in different contexts. It evaluates the existing price survey literature, discusses the accessibility and reliability of data sources, and provides a checklist and training kit on how to do price surveys, analyses and comparisons. The book devotes time to the theory and practice of external price comparison, its benefits and its limitations. Finally, the impact of the design of external price referencing on policy objectives such as affordable access to medicines and cost-containment are discussed, and options for improving the effectiveness of policies are presented. Provides practical guidance to plan and implement pharmaceutical pricing policy and systemsReviews the use, practice and experience of external price referencing systems across the worldExplains how to interpret medicine price surveys using common baselinesUnpicks the complexities of pharmaceutical price terminology and nomenclature INDICE: 1. Introduction 2. Regional and international comparison of medicine prices 3. Price studies for specific medicines 4. Developments 5. Discussion of methodology and findings 6. Overview of existing methodologies 7. Terminology 8. Medicine price data sources 9. Planning price studies 10. Interpretation of price analyses 11. Price comparison as one pricing 12. Practice of external price referencing 13. Assessment of EPR 14. Policy guidance 15. Policy brief 16. Conclusions

  • ISBN: 978-0-12-813166-4
  • Editorial: Academic Press
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 300
  • Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2018
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés