Economic impact of clinical trials on the health care systems (CROSBI ID 602707)
Prilog sa skupa u časopisu | sažetak izlaganja sa skupa | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Vitezić, Dinko ; Lovreček, Dijana
engleski
Economic impact of clinical trials on the health care systems
Advantages of clinical trials (CT) could be divided to direct benefits to the participants (new interventions, drugs, regular and careful medical attention), future patients, medical teams and medical community, sci- ence, public health and society in general. Besides benefits mentioned previously, CT could have positive economic impact on the health sys- tems (local and national) as well. Studies which analyzed CT economi- cally were performed only in US with the aim that patient care costs in clinical trials are approximately the same costs (or less) as care delivered in standard therapy. In several studies the costs associated with care in a CT can be less than the care delivered in standard therapy, because the third- party payer is not charged for the drug or treatment under investiga- tion. Considerable economic impact of CT is specially indicated in the system in which all expenses of CT should be covered by the sponsor (industry or specific funds). This approach is presented in European countries and probably leads to health- care budget savings. Treatment costs, diagnostic tests and care costs are covered not only for the patients treated with investigational medicines, but also for the patients on stan- dard therapies. Because of lack of studies in this field some specific investigations have been performed in Croatia. The amount paid by the sponsor to the institutions (hospital overhead, 20–40% from per-patient payment) for 49 regularly ended clinical trials, in which approximately 1400 patients participated, was more than one million Euros (70% from phase III trials). Further, different CT have been analysed from the eco- nomic point of view and presented as examples of this approach. In con- clusion, there is a lack of economic data of CT, but according to our investigation there is a positive effect on health-care system and it should be emphasized that if the system of complete CT coverage is applied the impact could be considerable.
clinical trials; economic impact; health-care systems
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Podaci o prilogu
10-10.
2011.
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objavljeno
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology
Brøsen, Kim
Nordic Association for the Publication of BCPT
1742-7843
Podaci o skupu
10th Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
poster
26.06.2011-29.06.2011
Budimpešta, Mađarska