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Economic Evaluation and Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds: Signals to Firms and Implications for R&D Investment and Innovation
PharmacoEconomics, 10/07/09
Vernon JA et al. – Thresholds set too low will result in R&D investment levels that are too low relative to the economic value of R&D. Similarly, thresholds set too high will result in inefficiently high levels of R&D spending. The US in particular, which represents approximately half of the global pharmaceutical market, and which seems poised to begin undertaking cost effectiveness in a systematic way, needs to exert caution in setting policies that explicitly or implicitly establish cost–effectiveness reimbursement thresholds for healthcare products and technologies, such as pharmaceuticals.
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