Canadian Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals

In 1994, p]Canada became the second country to release national guidelines for the economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals. The guidelines were developed over a period of 18 months through an elaborate process of broad consultation with a wide variety of relevant stakeholders. The intent of the guidelines is to provide guidance to doers and users of studies, by laying out the general ‘state of the art’ regarding methods, and by providing …