Comments on: …this is a disgraceful decision… http://www.winstonpeters.com/archives/140 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: naive newby http://www.winstonpeters.com/archives/140#comment-1466 naive newby Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:45:05 +0000 http://www.winstonpeters.com/?p=140#comment-1466 lol very true Sam :)) lol very true Sam :))

]]> By: Sam http://www.winstonpeters.com/archives/140#comment-216 Sam Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:09:36 +0000 http://www.winstonpeters.com/?p=140#comment-216 By the way i am not Sam Vilain. But of course we can get strawberry, chocolate and banana flavoured condoms. We could get Herceptin for 12 months if then government got rid of some of Pharmac's "managers". By the way i am not Sam Vilain.

But of course we can get strawberry, chocolate and banana flavoured condoms.
We could get Herceptin for 12 months if then government got rid of some of Pharmac’s “managers”.

]]> By: Sam Vilain http://www.winstonpeters.com/archives/140#comment-57 Sam Vilain Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:15:43 +0000 http://www.winstonpeters.com/?p=140#comment-57 As I understand it, there are these factors: * the available evidence indicates that the currently funded 9-week program is no less effective than the 12-month one * trying alternate drugs faster means more people get better, so it is <em>better</em> for patients to not have the longer course * this is an operational decision by Pharmac, whose decisions should not be made reflexively but based on evidence. Has anyone with credentials put up a referenced challenge to the decision? As I understand it, there are these factors:

* the available evidence indicates that the currently funded 9-week program is no less effective than the 12-month one

* trying alternate drugs faster means more people get better, so it is better for patients to not have the longer course

* this is an operational decision by Pharmac, whose decisions should not be made reflexively but based on evidence. Has anyone with credentials put up a referenced challenge to the decision?

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