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Methodological approaches to pharmaco‐economics
Author(s) -
Souêtre EJ,
Qing W.,
Hardens M.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
fundamental and clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1472-8206
pISSN - 0767-3981
DOI - 10.1111/j.1472-8206.1994.tb00786.x
Subject(s) - credibility , context (archaeology) , economic evaluation , health economics , data collection , activity based costing , health care , selection (genetic algorithm) , cost database , management science , public economics , actuarial science , economics , computer science , operations research , environmental economics , accounting , engineering , political science , geography , microeconomics , statistics , economic growth , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , law , management
Summary— Due to the increased need for cost‐containment policies, most decision makers are facing the issue of the efficiency of health care strategies. In this context, economic evaluation becomes a major instrument. However, the credibility of economic data depends on a number of methodological steps: selection of strategy of economic evaluation (cost/effectiveness, cost/benefit, generation of economic hypotheses, study design (cross‐sectional, prospective, naturalistic), data collection (data‐base, physicians), data analysis (costing, statistics). In this respect, the conduct of proper economic evaluation relies on a combination of expertise in clinical epidemiology as well as in health economics.