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Defining rewardable innovation in drug therapy

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery volume 11, pages 253–254 (2012)Cite this article

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Implementing mechanisms for rewarding those who introduce innovative medicinal products requires a definition of 'rewardable innovation'. Here, we propose a definition of innovation with respect to medicinal products, accompanied by a ranking of the importance of different types of innovativeness, with the aim of providing a basis for rewarding such innovation.

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  1. Jeffrey K. Aronson is at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, 23–38 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET, UK.,

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  2. Robin E. Ferner is at the West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reactions, City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK, and the School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.,

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  3. Dyfrig A. Hughes is at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University, Dean Street, Bangor LL57 1UT, UK.,

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J.K.A. is President Emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society, and a member of the Technology Appraisal Committee of the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). R.E.F. is an NHS member of the NICE Appeal Panel. D.A.H. is a member of the Welsh Medicines Partnership. However, the opinions expressed here are not necessarily shared by other members of those organizations or the organizations themselves.

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Supplementary table 1

Features relevant to a definition of rewardable innovation and their inclusion in previous definitions (PDF 159 kb)

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The usefulness of therapeutic innovations from different perspectives (PDF 123 kb)

Supplementary table 3

Innovative features of a selection of beta-blockers (PDF 132 kb)

Supplementary table 4

Varieties of innovativeness ranked by degree (adapted from reference 1) (PDF 149 kb)

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Aronson, J., Ferner, R. & Hughes, D. Defining rewardable innovation in drug therapy. Nat Rev Drug Discov 11, 253–254 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3715

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