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the elasticity of innovation with respect to the expected price of drugs should be at least as great as the elasticity of … innovation with respect to expected market size (disease incidence). I examine the cross-sectional relationship between … pharmaceutical innovation and market size among a set of diseases (different types of cancer) exhibiting substantial exogenous …
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I examine the relationship across diseases between the long-run growth in the number of publications about a disease and the change in the age-adjusted mortality rate from the disease. The diseases analyzed are almost all the different forms of cancer, i.e. cancer at different sites in the body...
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-year gained) of pharmaceutical innovation was about $12,900. …
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I examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation, as measured by the vintage (world launch year) of prescription drugs …
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We examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on the longevity of Australians during the period 1995-2003. Due to …
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We estimate the medical cost per life-year gained from increased utilization of HIV drugs by estimating the impact of increased drug utilization on the life expectancy and drug and hospital expenditure of HIV/AIDS patients, using aggregate (U.S. national-level) data for the period 1982-2001. We...
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We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the longevity of all hospital patients, i … patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy of WA hospital patients by …-level data also indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy of WA hospital patients, but the …
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I examine the effect of pharmaceutical innovation on the functional status of nursing home residents using cross … dependencies would have been 58%, instead of 50%. During the period 1990-2004, pharmaceutical innovation reduced the functional …
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This paper presents an econometric analysis of the effect of changes in the quantity and type of pharmaceuticals prescribed by physicians in outpatient visits on rates of hospitalization, surgical procedure, mortality, and related variables. It examines the statistical relationship across...
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This study examines the effect of changes in the vintage distribution of cardiovascular system drugs on hospitalization and mortality due to cardiovascular disease using longitudinal country-level data. The vintage of a drug is the first year in which it was marketed anywhere in the world. We...
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