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ReviewPharmacoEconomics2001

Economic evaluations during early (phase II) drug development: a role for clinical trial simulations?

D A Hughes, T Walley

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Review in PharmacoEconomics, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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2 authors.

D A HughesPrescribing Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. dyfrig@liv.ac.uk
T Walley

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Faced with increasing demands on demonstrating cost effectiveness, pharmaceutical companies are required to conduct pharmacoeconomic evaluations throughout the drug development programme. At present, there is particular emphasis in the literature on burden-of-illness studies and on economic evaluations conducted alongside phase III clinical trials but not on those conducted during phase II clinical trials. This article describes modelling techniques, namely clinical trial simulations (CTS), which are gaining popularity in the clinical research community, but which might also prove to be beneficial during the conduct of these early pharmacoeconomic evaluations. The basic concepts and structure of CTS are described by using published examples of simulations of antipsychotic and anticancer drugs. With the use of an illustrative example of a hypothetical cholinesterase inhibitor for Alzheimer's disease, an integrated CTS-based pharmacoeconomic evaluation is presented. The results demonstrate how the modelling may be of value in 'go/no-go' decisions during the drug development programme.

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Computer SimulationCost-Benefit AnalysisDrug DesignEconomics, PharmaceuticalAntipsychotic AgentsClinical Trials as TopicDibenzothiazepinesDrug IndustryHumansQuetiapine FumarateAntipsychotic AgentsDibenzothiazepinesQuetiapine Fumarate

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