Paying for Pharmaceutical Value: The Problem of a One-Size-Fits-All Definition
Executive Summary
It is a world, at least the US corner of it, in which any common understanding of drug value is confused by opposing incentives – to opacity and transparency, to looking at benefit broadly or narrowly, long-term or short-term: value, in short, to whom?
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