Variation in the prescription drugs covered by health systems across high-income countries: A review of and recommendations for the academic literature

Steven G. Morgan, Jamie R. Daw, Devon Greyson, Adrienne Shnier, Anne Holbrook and Joel Lexchin

Health Policy, 2020, vol. 124, issue 3, 231-238

Abstract: Because not all medicines are equally safe, effective, and affordable, health systems often use formularies to define explicitly which medicines will be included and excluded from coverage.

Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Formularies; Drug coverage; Cross-national comparisons; Literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.12.010

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