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      Cost avoided in drugs derived from the participation of patients in oncology clinical trials Translated title: Coste evitado en medicamentos derivado de la participación de pacientes en ensayos clínicos de oncología

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          Abstract Introduction: Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. About one in six deaths is due to this disease. The economic impact of cancer is increasing and has a high prevalence leading to high economic burden for the Health System mainly related to oncologic pharmacotherapies. The objective of this study is to calculate pharmaceutical expenditure savings as a consequence of patient's involvement in Oncology Clinical Trials. Material and methods: Retrospective observational study. In order to determine savings in oncology drugs, cancer treatments of patients participating in oncology clinical trials in April 2018 in a tertiary hospital in Spain were analyzed. Taking into account that the sponsor of the clinical trial provides the study medication free of charge, the costs savings were calculated comparing with the cost that would have supposed to treat the patient if they would have been received was standard regime for the type of tumor under study in clinical practice. Results: The cost avoided in the 50 oncology clinical trials analyzed was 1,564,943.59 euros. The average avoided cost per OCT was 31,298.87 euros, and the average avoided cost per patient was 10,096.41 euros. Conclusions: The participation of patients in oncology clinical trials provides an important economic saving, since it reduces the costs in the acquisition of medicines when they are provided free of charge by the sponsor of the study.

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          Resumen Introducción: El cáncer es la segunda causa de muerte a nivel mundial. Aproximadamente una de cada seis muertes se debe a esta enfermedad. El cáncer es una enfermedad de alta incidencia y el impacto derivado de la atención a pacientes oncológicos supone una importante carga económica para el Sistema Sanitario. El objetivo de este trabajo es calcular el coste evitado en medicamentos derivado de la participación de pacientes en Ensayos Clínicos de Oncología. Material y métodos: Estudio observacional retrospectivo. Se realiza un corte de datos en abril de 2018, se seleccionan todos los EECC activos en oncología y se incluyen los pacientes que habían participado en los mismos independientemente de la fecha de inclusión. Para determinar el coste evitado se calculó la diferencia entre el coste del esquema de tratamiento que el paciente está recibiendo dentro del EC con aportación gratuita de los medicamentos en investigación, y el coste que supondría el esquema de tratamiento que hubiese recibido en el supuesto de no haber participado en dicho EC. Resultados: El coste evitado en los 50 EECC analizados fue de 1.564.943,59 euros. El coste evitado medio por EC fue de 31.298,87 euros, y el coste evitado medio por paciente fue de 10.096,41 euros. Conclusiones: La participación de pacientes en EECC de oncología proporciona un importante ahorro económico, ya que reduce los costos en la adquisición de medicamentos cuando son proporcionados gratuitamente por el promotor del estudio.

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          Economic benefits of sponsored clinical trials on pharmaceutical expenditures at a medical center in Taiwan.

          Concerns exist regarding the additional cost of patient care when patients are enrolled in clinical trials at hospitals. To assess the avoidance of drug costs by conducting sponsored clinical trials, a retrospective analysis evaluating drug cost avoidance in all sponsored clinical trials was conducted in 2008 at the most prominent medical center in Taiwan. The National Health Insurance (NHI) reimbursement prices of either the investigated drugs or the standardized drug therapy for each specific disease were used to calculate the cost avoidance. Drug cost avoidance from sponsored clinical trials per year, per trial, per patient, in different therapeutic areas, and in different phases was analyzed. Three quarters of the cost avoidance in drug expenditures from 194 sponsored clinical trials were estimated. All cost values are in US Dollars. Around $11.2 million was avoided at the center in 2008. The average value of cost avoidance was $58,000/trial-year or $3,900/participant-year. The early-phase trials and phase III trials accounted for 25% and 56% of all trials, respectively, while they constituted 32% and 49% of the total costs avoided, respectively. The most frequently conducted and highest cost-avoiding trials were those for antineoplastic agents, especially targeted therapy which accounted for 85% of the total cost avoidance of anti-cancer trials. This study demonstrates the profoundly positive economic impact on the healthcare system in Taiwan by sponsored clinical trials. To understand the trend of economic benefits of the trials on pharmaceutical expenditure, it would be important to analyze the cost avoidance of trials regularly in an institution. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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            Costs and savings of investigational drug services.

            The costs and savings resulting from two pharmacy-based investigational drug services (IDSs) for fiscal year 1996-97 were studied. The costs and savings associated with IDSs at two joint institutions were calculated by adding the cost-avoidance figures (money that would most likely have been spent, but was not because of a specific intervention or program) to the money received from services charged to study investigators or patients and subtracting salaries and overhead costs. Only drugs for which the authors could obtain prices were used to calculate cost-avoidance figures. The number of doses of marketed drugs that were provided free or for which the pharmacy was reimbursed by a drug study sponsor between July 1996 and June 1997 was tabulated from pharmacy dispensing records for each study. Investigational drugs that were not marketed or for which no marketed alternative was available were not included in the cost-avoidance calculation but were included in the charges for IDSs. The total cost of IDSs at the two institutions was $249,112. Income (representing cost avoidance and payments received) totaled $2,958,774, giving the IDSs an overall saving of $2,709,662. The two disease categories with the largest cost-avoidance figures were AIDS and oncology. In total, there was a cost avoidance of $2.9 million in drug costs, which is equivalent to 8% of the institutions' annual drug budget for 1996-97. IDSs in two institutions accounted for a combined one-year saving of over $2.7 million, most of which was attributable to cost avoidance from not having to purchase study drugs.
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              Coste evitado en medicamentos de ensayos clínicos en cáncer de próstata

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                Journal
                ofil
                Revista de la OFIL
                Rev. OFIL·ILAPHAR
                Organización de Farmacéuticos Ibero-Latinoamericanos (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                1131-9429
                1699-714X
                September 2022
                : 32
                : 3
                : 229-233
                Affiliations
                [1] Madrid orgnameHospital Universitario La Paz orgdiv1Pharmacy Department Spain
                [2] Madrid orgnameHospital Universitario La Paz orgdiv1Oncology Department Spain
                Article
                S1699-714X2022000300003 S1699-714X(22)03200300003
                10.4321/s1699-714x2022000300003
                03d8e015-dfdc-4b48-a5a5-855feb13f53e

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 21 January 2021
                : 19 February 2021
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                oncología,Avoided cost,clinical trial,oncology,Coste evitado,ensayo clínico

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