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Health care setting where patients are formally admitted (“hospitalised”) to an institution for treatment and/or care and stays for a minimum of one…
Pricing the same medicine differently based on the indication in which it is being used.
Different variants for implementation have been proposed (e.…
Informal payments are payments to health care professionals in cash or in kind made outside official remuneration for these services by third party…
An interchangeable pharmaceutical product is one which is therapeutically equivalent to a comparator product and can be interchanged with the…
Interface management relates to policies, mechanisms, and measures of cooperation between the hospital and outpatient sectors, such as collaborative…
The practice of using the price(s) of identical medicines (ATC 5 level) or similar products (ATC 4 level) or therapeutically equivalent therapies in…
Requirements for prescribers (e.g. physicians) to prescribe a medicine by its INN, i.e. the active ingredient name instead of the brand name.…
Umbrella term for retailers of prescription-only medicines (POM) non-prescription medicines (NPM) that sell their products via the World Wide Web.…