Práce se zabývá statistickou analýzou cen léků v lékárnách okresu Kladno. Tato analýza byla provedena na modelové skupině 13 léků. Soustředila se zejména na rozdíly v cenách léků. Variační koeficient se pohyboval od 0,024 do 0,42. To ukazuje na velký rozdíl cen některých léků mezi lékárnami. Šetřením bylo dále prokázáno, že existuje závislost cen některých léků na umístění a bliž ší specifikaci lékáren kladenského ok re su. Statisticky významný rozdíl byl zjištěn mezi cenami léků v lékárnách umístěných v nákupních střediscích a mimo tato střediska (ve zdravotnických zařízeních, jinde). Vliv velikosti obce (Kladno – Slaný – ostatní) ani vzdálenosti od centra na ceny léků nebyl prokázán. Lékárníci kritizují systém jako příliš složitý a poukazují zejména na to, že mu pacienti nerozumí a nepřijímají ho., The paper deals with a statistical analysis of drug prices in pharmacies of the Kladno district. This analysis was carried out on a model set of 13 drugs. It was focused above all on differences in drug prices. The coefficient of variation varied between 0.024 and 0.42, which reflects large differences in prices of some drugs between pharmacies. The investigation has further shown that there is a dependency of prices of some drugs on the location and more detailed specification of pharmacies in the Kladno district. Statistically significant difference was proved between the prices in pharmacies within shopping malls, and outside them (in medical centres, elsewhere). Effects of the community size (Kladno – Slaný – other) and of the distance from the town centre were not established. Pharmacists criticize the system as too complicated and stress above all the fact that patients do not accept it., Martin Brhel, Vladimír Rogalewicz, and Lit.: 5
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) denotes a process (resp. a study), the objective of which is to get an idea about clinical, economic and ethical aspects of a health technology, including its effect to the quality of life, and a consequent assessment. The output of this process is compiled under strict methodological conditions, and it has only a character of recommendation. Abroad, HTA is intensely used above all to complex comparing two (or several) technologies. When the origin of HTA goes back to 1960 ́s and 1970 ́s, the first information appeared in the Czech Republic in the beginning of this millennium. No Czech institution is a member of international organizations INEHTA and HTAi, which makes any access to foreign know- how more difficult. Although no complex study has been probably produced in the Czech Republic, some efforts to a larger utilization of HTA methods can be seen, above all in pharmacoeconomics. What discourages their higher utilization is a lack of interest in results of HTA studies from the side of health care providers, decision makers (the Ministry, regional administrations, health insurance companies), missing methodology, absence of methodological guidance (non-existence of a national agency), pending funding, and (non)-participation in international networks., Vladimír Rogalewicz, Ivana Juřičková, and Literatura