Sinopsis
Today’s cost-sensitive healthcare environment has created a competitive and challenging workplace for clinicians. Competition for diminishing resources has necessitated that the appraisal of healthcare goods and services extends beyond evaluations of safety and efficacy and considers the economic impact of these goods and services on the cost of healthcare. A challenge for healthcare professionals is to provide quality patient care while assuring an efficient use of resources.
Defining the value of medicine is a common thread that unites today’s healthcare practitioners. With serious concerns about rising medication costs and consistent pressure to decrease pharmacy expenditures and budgets, clinicians/prescribers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals must answer the question, “What is the value of the pharmaceutical goods and services I provide?” Pharmacoeconomics, or the discipline of placing a value on drug therapy,1 has evolved to answer this question.
Challenged to provide high-quality patient care in the least expensive way, clinicians have developed strategies aimed at containing costs. However, most of these strategies focus solely on determining the least expensive alternative rather than the alternative that represents the best value for the money. The “cheapest” alternative with respect to drug acquisition cost is not always the best value for patients, departments, institutions, and healthcare systems.
Quality patient care must not be compromised while attempting to contain costs. The products and services delivered by today’s health professionals should demonstrate pharmacoeconomic value, that is, a balance of economic, humanistic, and clinical outcomes.
Pharmacoeconomics can provide the systematic means for this quantification. This chapter discusses the principles and methods of pharmacoeconomics and how they can be applied to clinical pharmacy practice and thereby how they can assist in the valuation of pharmacotherapy and other modalities of treatment in clinical practice.
Content
- Foundation Issues
- Cardiovascular Disorders
- Respiratory Disorders
- Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Renal Disorders
- Neurologic Disorders
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Endocrinologic Disorders
- Gynecologic Disorders
- Urologic Disorders
- Immunologic Disorders
- Rheumatologic Disorders
- Ophthalmic and Otolaryngologic Disorders
- Dermatologic Disorders
- Hematologic Disorders
- Infectious Diseases
- Oncologic Disorders
- Nutrition Disorders
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