For medicines where the estimated year 1 patient number was between 1 and 20, Spearman r values for years 1 and 2 post-recommendation failed to reach statistical significance, whilst the association in year 3 had a Spearman r value of 0.62.
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Estimated Versus Observed Expenditure Associated with Medicines Recommended by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group.
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Grouping the medicines by unit cost (measured as cost per patient per year) did, however, reveal an interesting trend.