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What is the Common Drug Review? Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)

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Therapeutics Letter 61 outlines the Common Drug Review (CDR) process in Canada and uses examples from four drug reviews. The Common Drug Review is a standardized process whereby the relative therapeutic and cost effectiveness of new brand name drugs is reviewed for government drug plans across Canada. The full drug reviews are used by CEDAC to develop listing recommendations and rationales for the recommendations, available on the CDR website: www.cadth.ca/index.php/en/cdr. At the present time full drug reviews are not open to the public.

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Title
What is the Common Drug Review?
Alternate Title
Therapeutics Letter 61
Creator
Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued
2006-12
Description
Therapeutics Letter 61 outlines the Common Drug Review (CDR) process in Canada and uses examples from four drug reviews. The Common Drug Review is a standardized process whereby the relative therapeutic and cost effectiveness of new brand name drugs is reviewed for government drug plans across Canada. The full drug reviews are used by CEDAC to develop listing recommendations and rationales for the recommendations, available on the CDR website: www.cadth.ca/index.php/en/cdr. At the present time full drug reviews are not open to the public.
Subject
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Drug Evaluation
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Notes
The UBC TI is funded by the BC Ministry of Health to provide evidence-based information about drug therapy. We neither formulate nor adjudicate provincial drug policies.
Date Available
2023-06-20
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0433640
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85050
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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