Davey P
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Infectious Diseases, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 1995 May-Jun;22(1-2):225-9. doi: 10.1016/0732-8893(95)00075-l.
Pharmacoeconomics is founded on the key principle of economics, which is that society's resources are limited, and therefore, choices have to be made about the use of those resources. Pharmacoeconomic analysis should estimate the costs and consequences of different drug treatments, including the use of all health care resources, not drug costs alone. Application of these principles to appropriate antimicrobial treatment requires separate consideration of a sequence of questions: Who needs treatment? What are the best drug, dose, route of administration, and duration of therapy? What information do we have about the outcomes of treatment? None of these questions is easy to answer, but economic analysis will help the decision maker by making explicit the costs and consequences of the available alternatives.
药物经济学建立在经济学的关键原则之上，即社会资源是有限的，因此必须对这些资源的使用做出选择。药物经济学分析应估计不同药物治疗的成本和后果，包括所有医疗保健资源的使用，而不仅仅是药物成本。将这些原则应用于适当的抗菌治疗需要分别考虑一系列问题：谁需要治疗？最佳的药物、剂量、给药途径和治疗持续时间是什么？我们对治疗结果有哪些信息？这些问题都不容易回答，但经济分析将通过明确现有替代方案的成本和后果来帮助决策者。
