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Patient journey analysis

The oncology patient pathway includes a series of steps that a cancer patient goes through: from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. It considers all aspects of care including diagnoses, treatment planning, care delivery, follow-up care, and end-of-life care. The cancer patient journey is ideally designed to provide comprehensive and coordinated care for cancer patients and […]

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Another significant victory on the way to transparent healthcare

The plaintiff unsuccessfully requested a statistical overview of the number of people who died for individual time periods from various causes after the ÚZIS. These questions may undoubtedly be a matter of legitimate public interest and therefore part of the public domain. According to the Constitutional Court (even taking into account the established jurisprudence of […]

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Societal perspective in economic evaluation in healthcare

Three perspectives are most commonly used in economic evaluations in the healthcare sector: (1) the payer perspective, which includes only the costs and utility of a particular party such as the patient, employer, or insurer; (2) the health care perspective, which includes only the costs and utility within the health care sector; and last but […]

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Performance-based managed entry agreements

Managed entry agreements (MEA) are arrangements that address uncertainty about the performance of technologies (mainly medicines) and simultaneously manage their adoption in order to maximize their effective use, or limit their budget impact. Basically, MEAs can be understood as a tool that gives patients an access to new medicines, while the risk of uncertain effectiveness […]

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