drugprice: Price of drugs under generic and brand names

In lmreg: Data and Functions Used in Linear Models and Regression with R: An Integrated Approach

Description

Across-countries median of median price ratio (MPR) of some medicines available in the private market under the generic name and the brand name of the originator (Gelders et al., 2005).

Usage

data(drugprice)

Format

A data frame with 13 observations on the following 2 variables.

Drug

Generic name of drug, a character vector

Quantity

Unit for price computation, a character vector

OriginatorMPR

Originator median price ratio, a numeric vector

GenericMPR

Generic median price ratio, a numeric vector

Details

The data comes from a World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned study on variation of drug prices over a number of developing countries. For comparability, the price in a particular region is expressed as a ratio (called median price ratio or MPR) with respect to the organization's drug price indicator median values. The data reflect the across-country median of these ratios in respect of 13 medicines, most of which are in the WHO list of essential medicines.

Source

Gelders, S., Ewen, M., Noguchi, N. and Laing R. (2005). Price, Availability and Affordability: An International Comparison of Chronic Disease Medicines, Background report prepared for the WHO Planning Meeting on the Global Initiative for Treatment of Chronic Diseases, Cairo, December 2005.

Examples

data(drugprice)
head(drugprice)

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