Barriers for access to new medicines: searching for the balance between rising costs and limited budgets

B Godman, A Bucsics, P Vella Bonanno… - Frontiers in Public …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: There is continued unmet medical need for new medicines across countries
especially for cancer, immunological diseases, and orphan diseases. However, there are …

A review of rare disease policies and orphan drug reimbursement systems in 12 Eurasian countries

M Czech, A Baran-Kooiker, K Atikeler… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Despite international initiatives on collaboration within the field of rare
diseases, patient access to orphan medicinal products (OMPs) and healthcare services …

Comparison of prices and affordability of cancer medicines in 16 countries in Europe and Latin America

D Moye-Holz, S Vogler - Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2022 - Springer
Background There are concerns that high prices of cancer medicines may limit patient
access. Since information on prices for cancer medicines and their impact on affordability is …

Inconsistency in race and ethnic classification in pharmacogenetics studies and its potential clinical implications

F Zhang, J Finkelstein - Pharmacogenomics and personalized …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Racial and ethnic categories are frequently used in pharmacogenetics literature
to stratify patients; however, these categories can be inconsistent across different studies. To …

Differences in time to patient access to innovative cancer medicines in six European countries

JM Vancoppenolle, N Franzen… - … journal of cancer, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Patients across Europe face inequity regarding access to anticancer medicines. While
access is typically evaluated through reimbursement status or sales data, patients can …

Financing healthcare in central and eastern European countries: how far are we from universal health coverage?

M Tambor, J Klich, A Domagała - International journal of environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
After the fall of communism, the healthcare systems of Central and Eastern European
countries underwent enormous transformation, resulting in departure from publicly financed …

Estimating an EQ-5D-3L value set for Romania using time trade-off

MS Paveliu, E Olariu, R Caplescu… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Objective: To provide health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data to support health
technology assessment (HTA) and reimbursement decisions in Romania, by developing a …

Policies and practices catalyzing the use of generic medicines: a systematic search and review

S Mostafa, MA Mohammad, J Ebrahim - Ethiopian Journal of Health …, 2021 - ajol.info
BACKGROUND: The use of generic medicines instead of branded, is one of the main
policies to decrease the expenditures and provide access to affordable and essential …

Influence of COVID-19 on health-related quality of life and the perception of being vaccinated to prevent COVID-19: an approach for community pharmacists from …

A Turcu-Stiolica, M Bogdan, MS Subtirelu… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Community pharmacists are essential front-line health workers, involved in relieving the
COVID-19 burden. Their health-related quality of life status needs to be assessed, as lower …

Do advanced therapies have a future in the low-and middle-income countries-The case of Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland

M Kamusheva, A Turcu-Stiolica, J Gierczyński… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The significant therapeutic potential of the advanced therapies (ATs) has
predetermined the increased interests in their development mainly in the context of rare …