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Systematic review on the evaluation criteria of orphan medicines in Central and Eastern European countries

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Title
Systematic review on the evaluation criteria of orphan medicines in Central and Eastern European countries
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Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13023-016-0455-6
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Tamás Zelei, Mária J. Molnár, Márta Szegedi, Zoltán Kaló

Abstract

In case of orphan drugs applicability of the standard health technology assessment (HTA) process is limited due to scarcity of good clinical and health economic evidence. Financing these premium priced drugs is more controversial in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region where the public funding resources are more restricted, and health economic justification should be an even more important aspect of policy decisions than in higher income European countries. To explore and summarize the recent scientific evidence on value drivers related to the health technology assessment of ODs with a special focus on the perspective of third party payers in CEE countries. The review aims to list all potentially relevant value drivers in the reimbursement process of orphan drugs. A systematic literature review was performed; PubMed and Scopus databases were systematically searched for relevant publications until April 2015. Extracted data were summarized along key HTA elements. From the 2664 identified publications, 87 contained relevant information on the evaluation criteria of orphan drugs, but only 5 had direct information from the CEE region. The presentation of good clinical evidence seems to play a key role especially since this should be the basis of cost-effectiveness analyses, which have more importance in resource-constrained economies. Due to external price referencing of pharmaceuticals, the relative budget impact of orphan drugs is expected to be higher in CEE than in Western European (WE) countries unless accessibility of patients remains more limited in poorer European regions. Equity principles based on disease prevalence and non-availability of alternative treatment options may increase the price premium, however, societies must have some control on prices and a rationale based on multiple criteria in reimbursement decisions. The evaluation of orphan medicines should include multiple criteria to appropriately measure the clinical added value of orphan drugs. The search found only a small number of studies coming from CEE, therefore European policies on orphan drugs may be based largely on experiences in WE countries. More research should be done in the future in CEE because financing high-priced orphan drugs involves a greater burden for these countries.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 162 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 37 23%
Student > Master 29 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 10%
Other 12 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 4%
Other 22 13%
Unknown 40 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 20%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 31 19%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 7%
Social Sciences 9 6%
Other 21 13%
Unknown 44 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 July 2016.
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