The economic impact of 14 compassionate use programs for medicines in Italy, in the perspective of the National Health Service
Claudio Jommi,
Federico Pantellini,
Giovanni Giuliani
et al.
Abstract:Background: Compassionate use programs (CUP) for medicines allow patients, not recruited in trials, accessing medicines before marketing approval. The evidence on the economic impact of CUP is limited to one paper that did not include the possible long-term economic impact of medicines used in CUP compared to alternative treatments, like avoided hospitalization costs. This paper aims at covering this information gap, updating and integrating the existing evidence, with a cost analysis in the perspective of the… Show more
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