Manfrin, Andrea, Knapp, Martin 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1427-0215, Cicchetti, Americo, Mandelli, Andrea and Tinelli, Michela ORCID: 0000-0002-8816-4389
(2018)
VP164 Applying health technology assessment to pharmacy: the Italian-Medicine-Use-Review-Health Technology Assessment.
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 33 (S1).
ISSN 0266-4623
Abstract
There is a lack of Health-Technology-Assessment (HTA) tools in pharmacy practice and the collection of real-world-evidence (RWE) in community pharmacy to populate longer-term-disease-progression-modelling (1). This project is looking at the development and application of a novel Patient-Reported-Outcome- Measure (PROM) in community pharmacy that can enable: the evaluation of the quality of care delivered from the patient perspective in terms of economic impact, patient health outcomes and ‘utilities’; the collection of RWE and evaluate long-term effect of care; to provide different stakeholders with unique evidence-based information that help formulate health policies in community pharmacy that are safe, effective, patient-focused and cost-effective, balancing access to innovation and cost containment. Evidence from the Italian-Medicine-Use-Review (I-MUR) trial (2) showed that the I-MUR intervention provided by community pharmacists to asthma patients is effective, cost-saving and cost-effective (3). The trial allowed to model a framework (I-MUR-HTA) that would enable to routinely deliver the intervention, but also collect and analyse PROM data on its clinical-effectiveness, quality-of-life and cost-effectiveness. I-MUR-HTA was discussed within three expert-panel discussions including policy-makers, commissioners, academics, healthcare-professionals and patient-representatives in Italy, United Kingdom and Europe. Current plan include testing the use of the tool in the real world environment. Evidence collected from the panel discussions confirmed that I-MUR-HTA evidence-based information is relevant to meet current National-Health-Care-System plans and this is what is needed to support the evaluation of innovative effective and cost-effective health policies and promote their implementation across nations. Current Italian law on pharmacy services provides the appropriate institutional framework to regulate the introduction of I-MUR-HTA across the territory. Its implementation is underway and a real-world pilot is planned to take place in Italy. I-MUR-HTA appears to be an innovative tool to promote active patient involvement into policy-decision-making and pharmacy-service.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/internatio... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 Cambridge University Press |
| Divisions: | Personal Social Services Research Unit LSE Health |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2018 15:02 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2024 08:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86959 |
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