Public Health Institutions, Clinical Research and Protection System of Patients’ Rights: An Impact Evaluation of Public Policy

Roberto Ippoliti and Greta Falavigna

Public Organization Review, 2014, vol. 14, issue 2, 109-125

Abstract: Public health institutions are involved in human experimentations, which is a specific phase of pharmaceutical industry’s production process. These medical centers collect clinical evidence about experimental treatments and, at the same time, they have to guarantee patients’ safety through appropriate Institutional Review Boards. Taking human experimentation into account, this work aims at estimating a public policy designed to reduce transaction costs that are related to the protection system of patients’ rights, with both a normative and positive approach. On the one hand, considering a sample of European countries as counterfactual, an empirical analysis is performed in order to estimate the impact of a national law aimed at harmonizing the procedure to obtain opinions on clinical trials. On the other hand, an alternative law, which might be able to favor the exchange between pharmaceutical companies and patients, is proposed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Public policy, Public health organizations, Transaction costs, International Review Boards (IRB), Clinical research, I18 (Government Policy Regulation; Public Health), L51 (Economics of Regulation), (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11115-012-0208-5

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