Numéro |
Therapie
Volume 65, Numéro 4, Juillet-Août 2010
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Page(s) | 341 - 345 | |
Section | Pharmacoéconomie / Pharmacoeconomics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.2515/therapie/2010034 | |
Publié en ligne | 21 septembre 2010 |
Pharmacoeconomics
How to Best Define Target Populations of Medicines in View of Their Coverage by the National Health Insurance Scheme?
1
Service Évaluation Économique et de Santé Publique, Haute Autorité de
Santé, Saint-Denis La Plaine
Cedex, France
2
Hôpital Saint Jacques, Besançon, France
3
IRIS, Groupe Servier, Courbevoie, France
Correspondance and offprints : Patricia Maillère, Groupe
Servier, 6 place des Pléiades, 92415 Courbevoie Cedex, France. E-mail:
patricia.maillere@fr.netgrs.com
Received:
3
May
2010
Accepted:
8
June
2010
The target population of a medicine may include different populations that may partially overlap including the population that has been evaluated in the clinical trials, the population for which the medicine provides an actual benefit (SMR), that for which the drug provides an improvement of the actual benefit (ASMR), etc. The definition of the target population in both qualitative and quantitative terms has key public health and economic implications. Recommendations are made to shed light on the definitions, to clarify the requests of the public decision makers and to improve the methods and the sources allowing the quantification of target populations.
Key words: target population / France / national health insurance / drug coverage / government agencies / decision making / pharmaceuticals
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