Graf von der Schulenburg J M
North German Center for Health Services Research HSR, University of Hannover, Germany.
Soc Sci Med. 1997 Aug;45(4):621-33. doi: 10.1016/s0277-9536(96)00401-7.
This paper briefly describes the German health care system and the role of economic studies in medical technologies and drugs in a decentralized health care system like Germany's. It also provides a number of examples of studies which have been conducted recently in Germany and shows the variation of sponsors, study types, study perspectives and objectives of those studies. It concludes with an outlook on the future role of pharmaco-economic studies in Germany and the recently published German recommendations for conducting those studies.
本文简要介绍了德国的医疗保健系统,以及经济研究在德国这样的分散式医疗保健系统中对医疗技术和药物所起的作用。它还列举了德国近期开展的一些研究实例,并展示了这些研究的资助方、研究类型、研究视角和目标的差异。文章最后展望了药物经济学研究在德国未来的作用,以及近期发布的德国开展此类研究的建议。