Pharmacoeconomics : principles and practice / Lorenzo Pradelli, Albert Wertheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pradelli, Lorenzo, author.

Wertheimer, Albert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drugs--Cost effectiveness.

Drugs.

Pharmacy--Economic aspects.

Pharmacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Torino, Italy : SEEd, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Economic issues related to the health sector have been gaining much attention in recent years, and the challenge of providing quality and comprehensive health care to a growing population has become increasingly complex.This book's aim is to introduce readers to basic principles of economics and to a set of analytical tools of economic evaluations and their application in the health sector.The most important evaluation techniques are explained by examples: cost-minimization analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis and cost-benefit analysis. Moreover the authors present the basic concepts for understanding and applying the budget impact analysis and the patient reported outcomes.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Colophon ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Health Care Dilemma""; ""Opportunity Cost""; ""Efficiency and Equity""; ""Pharmacoeconomics""; ""Sensitivity Analysis""; ""Summary""; ""Further Readings""; ""1 Definitions and Basic Concepts""; ""1.1 Definitions""; ""1.2 Costs""; ""1.3 Consequences""; ""1.4 Perspectives""; ""1.5 Time Horizon""; ""2 Pharmacoeconomic Evaluations""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Cost Analysis""; ""2.3 Cost-outcomes Analysis""; ""2.4 Utility""; ""2.5 Psychometrics""; ""3 Modeling Frameworks""; ""3.1 Steps in Decision Analysis""

""3.2 Influence Diagrams""""3.3 Markov Models""; ""3.4 Discrete-event Simulation""; ""3.5 Agent-based Models""; ""4 Budget Impact Analysis""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Example: Budget Impact Analysis of Clinical Guidelines in COPD Patients""; ""5 Patient Reported Outcomes""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 From Biological Measures to Patient Reported Outcome""; ""5.3 Quality of Life, Health Related Quality of Life, and Patient Reported Outcomes""; ""5.4 PRO Dimensions""; ""5.5 Every Patient has Individual Health Perceptions""; ""5.6 Applications of PRO Instruments""

""5.7 Identifying an Appropriate Instrument for Measuring PRO""""5.8 PRO Instruments""; ""5.9 When are the Results of PROs Relevant?""; ""5.10 Summary and Conclusion""; ""6 Data Sources and Accounting for Uncertainty""; ""6.1 Data Sources""; ""6.2 Statistical Analysis""; ""6.3 Accounting for Uncertainty""; ""6.4 Pharmacoeconomic Studies""; ""6.5 Conclusions: Evaluating Pharmacoeconomic Studies""; ""References""; ""Glossary""; ""Authors""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 6, 2014).

ISBN:

9788897419389

8897419380

OCLC:

881727882