Assessing the Effects of Federal Pediatric Drug Safety Policies
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a Professor and Director, Program in Economics and Health Policy, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy b Assistant Research Professor, Department of Health Policy c Research Assistant, Department of Health Policy d Research Assistant, Department of Health Policy e Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Policy, Department of Health Policy f Hirsh Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy his analysis provides an overview of federal pediatric drug safety policy. It also assesses the economic effectiveness of one aspect of this policy, known as “pediatric exclusivity.”
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