Decisions, Computers and Medicines: The Informatics of Pharmacotherapy
Authors: Tibor Deutsch, D. G. Cramp, Ewart R. Carson Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Pub Co Keywords: Drugs Information ISBN: 0444500049
Book description Hardbound. In virtually all countries concerns are being expressed over the rising cost of the medicines component of health budgets, the safety of medicines, their inappropriate use and more recently ethical issues arising from the use of therapies resulting from developments in molecular biology and genetics. Purchasers of pharmaceuticals demand value for money as well as efficacy and safety in order to use their resources more efficiently. Furthermore, they expect companies in the pharmaceutical industry to provide economic arguments for the use of each product. Pharmaceutical companies have responded by recognising that relative clinical benefits, quality of life, the effect on disease… |
