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(Oncology) PHCY320 Test sobre Pharmacoeconomics, creado por Mer Scott el 07/10/2019.

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Pharmacoeconomics

Pregunta 1 de 6

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In health care there is a scarcity of resources​ that requires we ration them.

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 2 de 6

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Opportunity cost​ is the idea that by doing one thing we lose the of doing something else​. The opportunity 'cost' is the that we would have got from the next best use​, that we miss out on. We aim to identify the (health) benefit that could have been gained from the best available alternative​.

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    opportunity
    benefit
    alternative

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Pregunta 3 de 6

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Health care cannot be considered a commodity as there is not demand for health (and health care is a way of generating health)​.

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 4 de 6

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Economic evaluation is an consideration of the involved in a decision to​ commit to one use instead of another​. Economic evaluation will create an .
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis gives estimates of the​:
Extra cost (i.e. ∆C > 0)​
Extra effect (i.e. ∆E > 0)​
Extra cost for one more unit of effect (i.e. is big?)​

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    organized
    factors
    resources
    estimate
    ∆C / ∆E

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Pregunta 5 de 6

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The language of trade-offs:
1. (we can spend more money to live longer)​. The extra benefit’s extra cost (extra cost per extra benefit)​
2. (eg new treatment costs an extra $30,000 and gives an extra year​ of life)​. Difference in cost / Difference in effectiveness. (30,000/1=30,000)
3. (just jargon)​. Incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER) = ΔC/ΔE​. The same calculation as in math, but we like the word “incremental"​.
4. ​. We can plot the ICER on the cost-effectiveness plane​.

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    Plain language
    Math
    Economics
    Graph

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Pregunta 6 de 6

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y Analysis eg the QALY assesses two outcomes, . Quality, ie QoL is usually scored with ‘perfect health’ = and death = ​. If a treatment gives 10 extra years of life at a quality of 0.5, the is 10*0.5 = 5.

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    Cost-Utilit
    quality of life and life years
    1
    0
    QALY

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