Sample paper
Framing a Research Question
- Subject
- Psychology
- Type
- Paper
- Citation style
- APA 6
- Length
- 8 pages
About this sample
The paper is a student summary of Treasure, Avorn, and Kesselheim (2015), a qualitative study of whether march-in rights under the Bayh-Dole Act can improve access to costly drugs developed with federal funding. It sets out the research question, the author's rationale for qualitative methods, and the interview and document-coding procedures used in the study.
- march-in rights
- Bayh-Dole Act
- prescription drug costs
- government-funded research
- qualitative document and interview analysis
How it opens
1. Bibliographic Citation for the Article
Treasure, C. L., Avorn, J., & Kesselheim, A. S. (2015). Do March-In Rights Ensure Access to Medical Products Arising From Federally Funded Research? A Qualitative Study. The Milbank Quarterly, 93(4), 761-787. doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12164
2. Summary of the Research Question
The increasing costs of new prescription medications is a mounting health policy problem. Most revolutionary medicines were initiated in public sector financing to non-profit study facilities. Even though the Bayh-Dole Act (1980) allows for march-ins that the government can use to have power over patients safeguarding products created via public financing to guarantee the public availability of these drugs, the appropriateness of the stipulation to recent policy programs is not apparent (Treasure, Avorn, & Kesselheim, 2015). The study intends to assess the function of march-in rights in the commercialization and licensing of health care. More specifically, whether applying march-in rights is a feasible approach in tackling the rising costs of specific health care products. The objective of the analysis is to comprehend the subtleties of using march-in rights and their part in the commercialization of pioneering medical technology centered on government-backed research.
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