Specialty drugs: a distinctly American phenomenon

Naci, Huseyin ORCID: 0000-0002-7192-5751 and Kesselheim, Aaron S. (2020) Specialty drugs: a distinctly American phenomenon. New England Journal of Medicine, 382 (23). 2179 - 2181. ISSN 0028-4793

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Abstract

Various stakeholders in the pharmaceutical supply chain assign the specialty label to drugs on the basis of a combination of several unrelated factors, including whether a drug treats a rare condition. But the single most common feature of specialty drugs is high cost.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.nejm.org/
Additional Information:	© 2020 Massachusetts Medical Society
Divisions:	Health Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2020 15:21
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2025 00:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105102

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