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Disease management: who needs it and why?

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  • Mike Drummond

    (Centre for Health Economics, The University of York)

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Disease management is attracting considerable attention from the pharmaceutical industry, which sees this as a way of extending its activities beyond drug development to health care management and organisation. However, it is unclear whether disease management offers advantages to the NHS or society more generally. This paper explores different interpretations of the term ‘disease management’ and assesses its likely advantages to the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS. It is concluded that the main attributes of disease management activities are that they encourage consideration of the full costs of disease, the cost-effectiveness of alternative approaches to diagnosis and treatment, and the development of innovative approaches to the provision of care. However, the NHS needs to make a careful assessment of whether partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry or any other party are likely to lead to increased efficiency. For this reason any disease management strategy should include a thorough examination of the costs and effectiveness of alternative health care treatments and programmes.

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  • Mike Drummond, 1997. "Disease management: who needs it and why?," Working Papers 152chedp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
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    1. Mike Drummond & Jonathan Cooke & Tom Walley, 1996. "Economic evaluation in health care decision making: evidence from the UK," Working Papers 148chedp, Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
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