1.The influencing Factors of Doctor-patient Shared Decision Making: A Qualitative Study
Linning YANG ; Hongying ZHENG ; Beibei WANG ; Yan YANG
Chinese Medical Ethics 2022;35(7):755-763
To explore the barriers and facilitators of shared decision making, 23 clinicians were selected for semi-structured interviews by purpose sampling and convenience sampling with phenomenological methods in qualitative research, and 7-step of Colaizzi was used to analyze the interview data. Three themes and twelve subthemes were extracted, included: individual factors of doctors (role cognition, perceived outcomes, communication skills, clinical expertise, cognitive bias) , individual factors of patients (general information, lack of disease knowledge, willingness to participate in decision making) and environmental factors (clinical situation, social environment, resources and social influence) . There were many barriers and facilitators in the implementation of doctor-patient shared decision making. It is necessary to scientifically analyze and actively deal with the influence of each factor, and find reasonable countermeasures to promote the clinical implementation of shared decision making.
2.Insights from Japan’s cost-effectiveness analysis policy on pricing for China’s NRDL access
Linning WANG ; Mengyu YANG ; Jie YU ; Yun LU
China Pharmacy 2024;35(8):901-905
The cost-effectiveness analysis policy for drugs was institutionalized in Japan since 2019, realizing quantitative adjustment of price across varieties. A hierarchical categorization approach was adopted to select medicines with high expected annual sales. For selected medicines, adjustments were made to the premium and profit components within the existing price structure based on a pre-defined incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) threshold, effectively resolving the issue of inconsistent criteria and magnitudes caused by subjective judgment. Meanwhile, incentive measures like evaluation exemption or threshold enhancement were granted for specific medicines. Besides, a price adjustment mechanism, which was allowed for upward and downward adjustments, involving tiered ICER threshold and quantified formulas, had been established for the premium and profit components of drug price. In China’s National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) access, certain issues remained to be addressed: insufficient clarity in the quantitative mechanism of price formation, incomplete price adjustment measures, and lagging in the communication channels. It is recommended that the following measures could be referred to when further improving the scientificity and fairness of drug pricing during China’s NRDL access, such as enhancing the ICER threshold for medicines catering to special populations, quantifying criteria and extents for price adjustment, granting preferential pricing policies to pharmaceutical companies that present high-quality evidence of effectiveness, preceding communication channels with pharmaceutical companies, as well as exploring a price floor mechanism for the drugs with excessive price reduction.