Why Barriers to Entry Are Barriers to Understanding

Biologic Drugs, Biosimilars, and Barriers to Entry.

Biologic drugs represent an important new category of drugs in the effort to improve health outcomes in this country. Yet, these cutting-edge drugs are often cost prohibitive, preventing access for many Americans. Recognizing the need for more affordable, generic substitutes for biologic drugs—or biosimilars—Congress recently created a biosimilars approval pathway that would enable these cheape...

Barriers to Technology Adoption and Entry∗

A key feature of recent work on barriers to technology adoption is the assumption that monopoly rights of insiders are limited by the ability of industry outsiders to enter. This paper endogenizes the decision of a government to provide barriers to technology adoption alone or in combination with barriers to entry of outsiders. Using a political economy model, we find that a government provides...

Understanding the barriers to multiprofessional collaboration.

Multiprofessional collaboration is key to delivering quality patient care. Many developments in health care such as supplementary prescribing or the single assessment process rely on the premise that such collaboration already exists. This article focuses on barriers to interprofessional collaboration and explores whether 'new ways of working' in health care can survive in an environment with a...

Thought barriers to understanding rheumatic diseases.

Barriers to Effective Diabetes Self-Management Education

Introduction: Self-management education is the key component of diabetes care. Furthermore, high levels of patient non-compliance or non-adherence to the treatment regimen suggest that patient education for self-management is faced with some shortcomings. This study aimed to identify barriers to effective diabetes self-management education. Methods: This is a traditional review of published st...