کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5724766 1411505 2016 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
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Original ArticleControversies with Kalydeco: Newspaper coverage in Canada and the United States of the cystic fibrosis “wonder drug”
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی پزشکی ریوی و تنفسی
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Original ArticleControversies with Kalydeco: Newspaper coverage in Canada and the United States of the cystic fibrosis “wonder drug”
چکیده انگلیسی

BackgroundThe cystic fibrosis drug, Kalydeco, has attracted attention both for its effectiveness in particular CF patients and its substantial price tag. An analysis of newspaper portrayals of Kalydeco provides an opportunity to examine how policy issues associated with rare diseases and orphan drugs are being represented in the popular press.MethodsWe conducted a content analysis of 203 newspaper articles in Canada and the U.S. that mention Kalydeco. Articles were analyzed for their main frame, discussion of Kalydeco, including issues of drug development, patient access, and reimbursement, and overall tone.ResultsIn Canadian newspaper coverage, 77.4% of articles were framed as human interest stories featuring individual patients seeking public funding for Kalydeco, yet only 7.5% mentioned any budgetary limitations in doing so. In contrast, U.S. newspaper coverage was framed as a financial/economic story in 43.1% of articles and a medical/scientific story in 27.8%.ConclusionsNewspaper coverage varied significantly between Canada, where Kalydeco is predominantly a story about increasing patient access through full government funding, and the U.S., where Kalydeco is largely a financial story about the economic impact of Kalydeco. The difference in coverage may be due to differences in public funding between the healthcare systems of these two countries.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Cystic Fibrosis - Volume 15, Issue 5, September 2016, Pages 624-629
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