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ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2024

Commentary: Which Principles Should Apply for a National Strategy on Rare Diseases?

Marc-AndrÉ Gagnon

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Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Spending on Healthcare: What Is the Right Number?Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Marc-AndrÉ GagnonAssociate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lexchin and Sirrs (2024) proposed five relevant principles to guide the use of federal funding for expensive drugs for rare diseases, including funding of outcomes-based risk-sharing agreements (OBRSAs) and proactive commitment and participation in the generation of high-quality evidence in a transparent way. This rejoinder, however, questions whether the federal funding should be used only to buy new drugs or whether it could be used to develop new drugs as well. It also examines what OBRSAs would require in terms of institutional capacities to allow the collection of real-world evidence.

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Rare DiseasesFinancing, GovernmentHealth PolicyHumansOrphan Drug ProductionRisk Sharing, Financial

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PMID39229660
PMCPMC11411644

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