Some aspects of the critical evaluation of peptic ulcer therapy in patients.

The disease peptic ulcer in patients does not present a uniform clinical entity. Hence, the therapeutic approaches to peptic ulcers are significantly different. Independently from the therapeutically given drugs, some common problems can be found in the methods of critical evaluation of the peptic ulcer therapy in patients. This paper deals with goals, the possible ways to evaluate critically the efficacy of peptic ulcer therapy and the problems in patients in relation to both evaluation of clinical pharmacology and as well as to everyday medical practice.