Approaches to manage 'affordability' of high budget impact medicines in key EU countries

• Main Authors: Mathias Flume (Author), Marc Bardou (Author), Stefano Capri (Author), Oriol Sola-Morales (Author), David Cunningham (Author), Lars-Ake Levin (Author), Maarten J. Postma (Author), Nicolas Touchot (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The launch of hepatitis C (HCV) drugs such as sofosbuvir or ledipasvir has fostered the question of affordability of novel high budget impact therapies even in countries with high domestic product. European countries have developed a variety of mechanisms to improve affordability of such...