Patient organization involvement and the challenge of securing access to treatments for rare diseases: report of a policy engagement workshop

Plain English summary Patients with rare diseases often help to develop new treatments for their conditions. But once developed, those treatments are sometimes priced too high for many patients to access them. We became aware that this is a problem in the course of a social science research project...

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Main Authors: Koichi Mikami, Steve Sturdy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:Research Involvement and Engagement
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40900-017-0065-z