The most exhausive guide available for the health care practitioner who wants an in-depth working knowledge of pharmacoeconomics and outcomes assessment. Includes multiple perspectives, and multiple
strategies for integrating pharmacoeconomic measurements and drug therapy algorithms into the care path. The text includes an extensive series of economic and humanistic assessments, their purpose and application. Economic outcomes measures include cost-of-illness analysis, cost-minimization analysis,
cost-benefit analysis,
cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, decision analysis, Markov modeling, and sensitivity analysis. Humanistic outcomes measures include health status, patient