Pharmacoeconomics: basic concepts and terminology

Pharmacoeconomics: basic concepts and terminology.

in promoting rational prescribing [4] or in clinical trials Introduction which incorporate an economic component. In some areas (e.g. Australia) economic evaluations are now formally Spending on drugs is a major target for savings in health care costs for governments around the world. Such a focus required prior to a drug being approved for reimbursement— the ‘fourth hurdle’ for a new drug afte...

Pharmacoeconomics in Ireland. Concepts and terminology.

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Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology

One of the first things that any science or engineering discipline must have is a vocabulary for expressing its concepts and a language for relating them together. The goal of patterns within the software community is to create a body of literature to help software developers resolve common difficult problems encountered throughout all of software engineering and development. Patterns help crea...

29 2 Basic Terminology Philip

The overall objective of this chapter is to provide an introduction to basic terminology that the first-time student may find useful when exploring articles and books related to cancer epidemiology. The chapter is designed to introduce the reader to a number of basic concepts that apply to benign and malignant neoplasms, tumor metastases, tumor staging, and grading classification schemes and to...