Economic Evaluation of Pharmacy Services provides the latest on the trend to a more product-centered and service-centered practice, eschewing traditional economic evaluation techniques that focus on product-to-product comparisons in favor of evaluating processes that measure costs and health outcomes. Complete with examples focusing on best practices, including various study designs, types of pharmacy services, and types of outcomes being evaluated, the book emphasizes case studies and examples that help readers understand economic evaluation techniques. Many of these techniques are transferable across countries, especially where there are advanced and stable health systems in place. With the help of this practical guide, readers will gain a thorough understanding of the application of economic evaluation of pharmacy services. Delivers a practical guide for conducting economic evaluations of hospital and community pharmacy servicesDocuments the literature around health economic evaluation and innovative pharmacy services Guides the development of a standardized health economic evaluation tool to evaluate these services INDICE: Part 1: Introduction to Economics in Healthcare 1. An introduction to economic evaluation of health care programmes 2. Application to pharmacist-provided patient care in various settings 3. Economic evaluation of community and hospital pharmacy services- synthesis of the literature 4. Critical evaluation of the literature 5. Economic evaluation of community and hospital pharmacy services in US and Canada 6. Economic evaluation of pharmacy services in United Kingdom, Australia and in NZ 7. Economic evaluation of pharmacy services in European countries 8. Economic evaluation elsewhere Part 2: Economic evaluation techniques and pharmacy services 9. General overview 10. Using cost analysis 11. Using cost effectiveness analysis, cost benefit analysis, cost utility analysis to conduct an economic evaluation 12. Techniques and skills needed to perform an economic analysis 13. Developing a standard approach to perform economic evaluation Part 3: Conducting evaluation of innovative pharmacy services by applying economic evaluation 14. How to apply economic evaluation 15. Steps in conducting an economic evaluation 16. Case studies and examples
- ISBN: 978-0-12-803659-4
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 218
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés