Ashton Quanbury

Nov 27, 2023 | cmaj.ca | Quinn Grundy |Ashton Quanbury |Dana L. Hart |Shanzeh Chaudhry

“If you’re playing in the specialty medicines field,” argued a pharmaceutical industry consulting firm, “a patient support program is the price of admission.”1 Pharmaceutical company–sponsored patient support programs, designed to lessen financial and clinical barriers for patients and prescribers to starting and sustaining treatment, exist in high- and middle-income countries globally.2–7 Once prescribed the treatment, patients are referred to the program by their health care provider or...