Stratified Medicine and Reimbursement Issues
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Stratified Medicine and Reimbursement Issues
Stratified Medicine (SM) has the potential to target patient populations who will most benefit from a therapy while reducing unnecessary health interventions associated with side effects. The link between clinical biomarkers/diagnostics and therapies provides new opportunities for value creation to strengthen the value proposition to pricing and reimbursement (P&R) authorities. However, the int...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Pharmacology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1663-9812
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2012.00181