Catastrophic expenditure and impoverishment of patients affected by 7 rare diseases in China
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Catastrophic expenditure and impoverishment of patients affected by 7 rare diseases in China
BACKGROUND China is actively promoting regulation of rare diseases, rare disease and orphan drugs have been formally incorporated into the national planning. However, few studies have been done to evaluate the affordability of rare disease patients in China. This study aims to provide policy recommendations for the establishment of social security mechanism for rare diseases in China, so as to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1750-1172
DOI: 10.1186/s13023-016-0454-7