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De l'inapplicabilite de certaines recommandations therapeutiques en pratique: l'exemple du remboursement des medicaments hypolipidemiants en Belgique.
Scheen, André
2000In Revue Médicale de Liège, 55 (4), p. 260-4
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Keywords :
Anticholesteremic Agents/economics/therapeutic use; Belgium; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Drug Costs; Economics, Pharmaceutical; Evidence-Based Medicine; Health Policy; Humans; Hypercholesterolemia/drug therapy; Insurance Coverage; Insurance, Health, Reimbursement
Abstract :
[en] International guidelines from the Task Force of European and other Societies on Coronary Prevention and national guidelines from the Belgian Lipid Club recently emphasized the potential interest of adequate management of patients with even moderate hypercholesterolaemia. However, current criteria for the reimbursement of lipid-lowering drugs in Belgium do not allow to follow these guidelines. A solution should be urgently found in order to bridge the gap and permit practitioners, after diet failure, to effectively prescribe lipid-lowering agents in patients who should benefit in priority of such a treatment. It is certainly the case in secondary prevention as well as, in high risk individuals, in primary prevention, i.e. in situations where these drugs have provided enough evidence of their efficacy with an acceptable cost-benefit ratio.
Disciplines :
Pharmacy, pharmacology & toxicology
Author, co-author :
Scheen, André  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Diabétologie, nutrition et maladie métaboliques - Médecine interne générale
Language :
French
Title :
De l'inapplicabilite de certaines recommandations therapeutiques en pratique: l'exemple du remboursement des medicaments hypolipidemiants en Belgique.
Alternative titles :
[fr] On the inapplicability of certain therapeutic guidelines in practice: the example of reimbursement for hypolipidemic agents in Belgium
Publication date :
2000
Journal title :
Revue Médicale de Liège
ISSN :
0370-629X
eISSN :
2566-1566
Publisher :
Hopital de Baviere, Liège, Belgium
Volume :
55
Issue :
4
Pages :
260-4
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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