Pharmacoeconomics of Surfactant Therapy

Pharmacoeconomics of Cancer Therapy.

BACKGROUND: In 1990, annual costs of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer reached nearly $100 billion and currently constitutes approximately 10% of health care expenditures in the United States. As new and often more expensive therapies for cancer treatment become available, the health care decision-maker must consider the cost effectiveness of the therapy. METHODS: Key principles of economic...

Porcine factor VIII: pharmacoeconomics of inhibitor therapy.

The treatment of acquired haemophilia is characteristically exceedingly expensive and thus a cost-benefit analysis of the several available treatment strategies is urgently needed. To address this issue, decision-analysis techniques were used to construct a cost-minimization model to compare the cost of treatment with porcine factor VIII (pFVIII), human FVIII (hFVIII) or an activated prothrombi...

Pharmacoeconomics- Costs of Drug Therapy to Healthcare Systems

Pharmacoeconomics is the description and analysis of the costs of drug therapy to healthcare systems and society. Pharmacoeconomics is a sub-discipline of the field of health economics, which itself is a relatively new sub-discipline of economics, only formerly appearing in the economics scientific literature since the 1960s. The importance of pharmacoeconomic information to healthcare decision...

[Surfactant replacement therapy]

OBJECTIVE: To analyze and update information about surfactant therapy replacement in newborns with lung diseases. SOURCES: Literature review, including textbooks, meta-analyses, prospective, randomized controlled trials, retrospective assessments and case studies. Literature was reviewed based on the authors clinical and scientific experience regarding surfactant replacement therapy in neonatal...

Update in Surfactant Therapy