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SELECTING AND ALLOCATING REPACKAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR UNIT-DOSE MEDICATIONS IN HOSPITAL PHARMACIES
PAZOUR, JENNIFER A.; ROOT, SARAH E.; MELLER, RUSSELL D.; … - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 10 (2013) 03, pp. 1340011-1
economical technology alternative for most hospital pharmacy in-house repackaging operations. This result, however, is sensitive …
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Multiple criteria decision analysis for value based assessment of new medical technologies: a conceptual framework
Kanavos, Panos; Angelis, Aris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Assessing the value of new medical technologies may require new approaches that take into account a more comprehensive set of parameters than the incremental cost/QALY. It is argued that MCDA can fulfil this role and has the potential to be methodologically superior to the currently used...
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More trade for better health? International trade and tariffs on health products
Helble, Matthias - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
The main objective of this paper is to analyse trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous studies, we not only focus on medicines, but on a large set of products that enter the public health space and can be identified in the common trade classification. The first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115166
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Impacts of Advances in Medical Technology in Australia
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
the Productivity Commission research report into the ‘Impacts of Advances in Medical Technology in Australia’ was released on 20 September 2005. The report responds to a request from the Australian Government to examine the impact of advances in medical technology on public and private...
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Belgium: Enhancing the Cost Efficiency and Flexibility of the Health Sector to Adjust to Population Ageing
Sorbe, Stéphane - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In …
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Improving China's Health Care System
Herd, Richard; Hu, Yu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
the relative price of care soared through the early 2000s. Hospital budgets and their doctors’ pay are partly based on the … pharmaceuticals they prescribe and sell, whose prices are regulated and involve considerable cross-subsidisation. Faced with these … prevention, a new essential drugs system and far-reaching reorganisation, including hospital reform. It will be important to make …
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Balancing Health Care Quality and Cost Containment: The Case of Norway
Bibbee, Alexandra; Padrini, Flavio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
, and per capita spending on health is now one of the highest in the OECD. Centralisation of hospital ownership may have …
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Do follow-on therapeutic substitutes induce price competition between hospital medicines? Evidence from the Danish hospital sector
Hostenkamp, Gisela - In: Health Policy 111 (2013) 1, pp. 68-77
between branded hospital medicines. …
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Algorithms for asset replacement under limited technological forecast
Yatsenko, Yuri; Hritonenko, Natali - In: International Journal of Production Economics 160 (2015) C, pp. 26-33
The optimal asset replacement is analyzed when the future course of technological change is known on a limited future horizon. Comparison of factual and desired properties of known replacement methods leads us to the idea of how to improve their efficiency under changing technology reflected in...
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Optimal Timing of Technology Adoption
Huisman, Kuno; Kort, Peter; Farzin, Y.H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996
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