Patients’ perspectives can be integrated in health technology assessments: an exploratory analysis of CADTH Common Drug Review

In Canada, the CADTH Common Drug Review helps ensure that scarce health care resources are used to fund the most effective drugs. Clinicians, researchers, payers, and patients all have important, but potentially different, ideas on what should be considered, to determine a drug’s value. Since 2010, CADTH has invited patient groups to contribute their perspectives to the Common Drug Review. We explored whether, and how, insights offered by...