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ArticleJournal of managed care & specialty pharmacy2015

Health Care Costs Among Renal Cancer Patients Using Pazopanib and Sunitinib.

Elizabeth A MacLean, Rickard Sandin, Jack Mardekian

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Article in Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elizabeth A MacLeanPfizer. elizabeth.maclean@pfizer.com.
Rickard Sandin
Jack Mardekian

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Publications that aim to assess the economics of different therapies are important because they complement clinical trial data and may aid in decision making. We therefore read with interest the study by Hansen et al. in the January 2015 issue of JMCP. This study compared  costs between pazopanib (PAZ) and sunitinib (SU) in the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).1 The authors assessed health care costs through assignment of costs from the Truven Health MarketScan Databases to the self-reported health care resource utilization (HCRU) data from the population studied in the phase III noninferiority clinical trial COMPARZ (Pazopanib versus sunitinib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma).2 We are writing to comment on the conclusions drawn from the results presented, the methodology used, and to request additional information and clarification on data presented.

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Health Care CostsCarcinoma, Renal CellFemaleHumansIndolesKidney NeoplasmsMalePyrimidinesPyrrolesSulfonamidesIndolesPyrimidinesPyrrolesSulfonamides

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PMID26308231
PMCPMC10398308

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