lmreg (version 1.2)

drugprice: Price of drugs under generic and brand names

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.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(drugprice)
head(drugprice)
# }