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ReviewThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2014

Are biosimilars the next tool to guarantee cost-containment for pharmaceutical expenditures?

María-Isabel Farfan-Portet, Sophie Gerkens, Isabelle Lepage-Nefkens, Irmgard Vinck, Frank Hulstaert

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Review in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Individual Prescribing Incentives for Biosimilars in Selected European Countries and the USA: a Scoping Literature Review.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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  10. Physician-Level Cost Control Measures and Regional Variation of Biosimilar Utilization in Germany.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  13. The role of biosimilars in value-based oncology care.Cancer management and research · 2018
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  15. Introduction of biosimilar insulins in Europe.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2017
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  20. Key drivers for market penetration of biosimilars in Europe.Journal of market access & health policy · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

María-Isabel Farfan-PortetBelgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Boulevard du Botanique, 50, 1000, Brussels, Belgium, maria.farfan@kce.fgov.be.
Sophie Gerkens
Isabelle Lepage-Nefkens
Irmgard Vinck
Frank Hulstaert

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Fees, PharmaceuticalBiosimilar PharmaceuticalsCost ControlEconomic CompetitionEuropeHumansBiosimilar Pharmaceuticals

Identifiers

PMID24271016
PMCPMC3950601

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