Does it Matter Whether Canada’s Separate Health Technology Assessment Process for Cancer Drugs has an Economic Rationale?
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Does it Matter Whether Canada’s Separate Health Technology Assessment Process for Cancer Drugs has an Economic Rationale?
McDonald et al. searched for reasons why Canada and other countries might separate their cancer drug HTA process. They appraised whether any of the rationales they found were derived from the assumption commonly made by health economists that ‘‘the goal of society or decision makers is to maximize the total aggregate health benefit conferred to a population for a given level of resources’’. The...
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عنوان ژورنال: PharmacoEconomics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1170-7690,1179-2027
DOI: 10.1007/s40273-015-0278-7