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Paying for the Orphan Drug System: break or bend? Is it time for a new evaluation system for payers in Europe to take account of new rare disease treatments?

Since its enactment in 2000, the European Orphan Medicinal Products Regulation has allowed the review and approval of approaching 70 treatments for some 55 different conditions in Europe. Success does not come without a price, however. Many of these so-called “orphan drugs” have higher price points...

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Autores principales: Hughes-Wilson, Wills, Palma, Ana, Schuurman, Ad, Simoens, Steven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23013790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-1172-7-74