BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical care in community pharmacies has been shown to improve adherence to chronic therapies. Long-term impact on clinical outcomes or medical cost savings, however, remains understudied.  OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a pharmaceutical care intervention program in Dutch community pharmacies that improved patients' adherence to lipid-lowering therapy.  ME...

M. Ding et al. (eds.), Innovation and Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Industry, International Series in Quantitative Marketing 20, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7801-0_24, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract This chapter identifi es a strategy-tactics gap in most previous studies of pharmaceutical marketing, and addresses it by systematically analyzing the marketing strategies use...

Recent global developments in the regulation of trade and intellectual property rights threaten to hinder the access of populations in developing countries to essential drugs. The authors argue for state intervention in the health and pharmaceutical markets in order to guarantee equitable access to these products.

Molecular Inflammation Research Center for Aging Intervention (MRCA), College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea Graduate School of Science and Engineering for Research, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8131, Japan Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Health Scien...

BACKGROUND Treatment of depression, the most prevalent and costly mental disorder, needs to be improved. Non-concordance with clinical guidelines and non-adherence can limit the efficacy of pharmacological treatment of depression. Through pharmaceutical care, pharmacists can improve patients' compliance and wellbeing. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness...