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Record W2051159858 · doi:10.1586/14737167.2.3.251

Pharmacoeconomics in oncology

2002· article· en· W2051159858 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Rebecca Arbuckle, Andrea Adamus, Krista M King

Bibliographic record

VenueExpert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPharmacoeconomicsLiberian dollarMedicineHealth carePopulationHealth economicsEconomic evaluationFamily medicineOncologyBusinessIntensive care medicineEconomic growthEconomicsEnvironmental healthFinance

Abstract

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Healthcare costs in the USA continue to rise faster than the consumer price index. Nothing demonstrates this more vividly than the double-digit increases posted for the cost of the drug treatment of the oncology patient. A factor that will compound this cost is the expansion in the oncology patient population that will occur as the population ages. Pharmacoeconomics is a discipline that evaluates the relationship between clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes to determine the products and services that maximize the value for each dollar spent. Research in this area is evolving to meet the needs of the individual patient and decision-makers within a payer group, healthcare system, or society. Healthcare interests in countries in Europe, Canada and Australia have already adopted analytical tools and incorporated them into guidelines for drug use. The USA is also moving in this direction now that the Food and Drug Administration is considering requiring studies in pharmacoeconomics in addition to the standard studies of the safety and efficacy of drugs. The importance of this approach to oncology will be seen as policy-makers apply research findings to practice decisions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.055
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.070

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.055
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.007
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0050.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.462
GPT teacher head0.657
Teacher spread0.196 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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