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Pharmaceutical strategic purchasing requirements in Iran: Price interventions and the related effective factors

OBJECTIVE: Pharmaceutical access for the poor is an essential factor in developing countries that can be improved through strategic purchasing. This study was conducted to identify the elements affecting price in order to enable insurance organizations to put strategic purchasing into practice. METH...

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Autores principales: Bastani, Peivand, Dinarvand, Rasoul, SamadBeik, Mahnaz, Pourmohammadi, Kimia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985434
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2279-042X.176553
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author Bastani, Peivand
Dinarvand, Rasoul
SamadBeik, Mahnaz
Pourmohammadi, Kimia
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description OBJECTIVE: Pharmaceutical access for the poor is an essential factor in developing countries that can be improved through strategic purchasing. This study was conducted to identify the elements affecting price in order to enable insurance organizations to put strategic purchasing into practice. METHODS: This was a qualitative study conducted through content analysis with an inductive approach applying a five-stage framework analysis (familiarization, identifying a thematic framework, indexing, mapping, and interpretation). Data analysis was started right after transcribing each interview applying ATLAS.ti. Data were saturated after 32 semi-structured interviews by experts. These key informants were selected purposefully and through snowball sampling. FINDINGS: Findings showed that there are four main themes as Pharmaceutical Strategic Purchasing Requirements in Iran as follows essential and structural factors, international factors, economical factors, and legal factors. Moreover, totally 14 related sub-themes were extracted in this area as the main effective variables. CONCLUSION: It seems that paying adequate attention to the four present themes and 14 sub-themes affecting price can enable health system policy-makers of developing countries like Iran to make the best decisions through strategic purchasing of drugs by the main insurers in order to improve access and health in the country.
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spelling pubmed-47765452016-03-16 Pharmaceutical strategic purchasing requirements in Iran: Price interventions and the related effective factors Bastani, Peivand Dinarvand, Rasoul SamadBeik, Mahnaz Pourmohammadi, Kimia J Res Pharm Pract Pharmacoeconomic Study OBJECTIVE: Pharmaceutical access for the poor is an essential factor in developing countries that can be improved through strategic purchasing. This study was conducted to identify the elements affecting price in order to enable insurance organizations to put strategic purchasing into practice. METHODS: This was a qualitative study conducted through content analysis with an inductive approach applying a five-stage framework analysis (familiarization, identifying a thematic framework, indexing, mapping, and interpretation). Data analysis was started right after transcribing each interview applying ATLAS.ti. Data were saturated after 32 semi-structured interviews by experts. These key informants were selected purposefully and through snowball sampling. FINDINGS: Findings showed that there are four main themes as Pharmaceutical Strategic Purchasing Requirements in Iran as follows essential and structural factors, international factors, economical factors, and legal factors. Moreover, totally 14 related sub-themes were extracted in this area as the main effective variables. CONCLUSION: It seems that paying adequate attention to the four present themes and 14 sub-themes affecting price can enable health system policy-makers of developing countries like Iran to make the best decisions through strategic purchasing of drugs by the main insurers in order to improve access and health in the country. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4776545/ /pubmed/26985434 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2279-042X.176553 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Pharmaceutical strategic purchasing requirements in Iran: Price interventions and the related effective factors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985434
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2279-042X.176553
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