Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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Antibiotics against CRE Chosen for Japan’s Revenue-Guarantee Pilot Project
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has nominated antimicrobials that work against Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) to be the products supported under its pilot project on a revenue-guarantee system in FY2023. The system is designed as a pull incentive…
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