Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, postgraduate students will know the role of pharmacoeconomics in health economics and integrate the data of pharmacoeconomic research in the assessment of quality of life, distinguish the type of cost-effectiveness analyzes in pharmacoeconomics and the correlation of cost-benefit assessment and pharmacoeconomic analysis, they are able to translate the results of the therapeutic outcome into the decision-making process, They can design a pharmacoeconomic analysis including all relevant parameters, They become familiar with the basic principles of management and understand the specificities and problems of the management of pharmaceutical companies.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Basic principles of management.
2. Principles of business organization and operation
3. Planning process and bases in pharmaceutical companies/services".
4. Introduction to Pharmacoeconomics
5. Analysis of clinical data
6. Cost minimization analysis
7. Cost-effectiveness analysis
8. Cost-utility analysis
9. Resource Usage, Prices and Costs
10. Measuring health status and health-related quality of life
10. Measuring health status and health-related quality of life
11. Cost-benefit analysis
12. Pharmaceutical Business Administration, organization, goals and challenges
13. Regulatory framework for the approval and circulation of medicines
14. Drug Pricing and Reimbursement Legislation and Regulations
15. HTA – International practice
16. Critical appraisal of a cost-effectiveness analysis
Keywords
Pharmacoeconomics, Therapeutic outcome, Benefit-risk assessment, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit, health technology assessment, health-related quality of life, decision-making process, business administration, management planning, pharmaceutical business strategic planning,
Additional bibliography for study
Pharmacoeconomics.By Tom Walley, MD, FRCP(London), FRCPI, Alan Haycox, MD and Angela Boland, MD,Elsevier
Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)) Second Edition by Karen Rascati PharmD
PhD (Author)
Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice. Renee J. G. Arnold (CRC Press )
Κωσταγιόλας Π., Κατεϊλίδου Δ., Χατζοπούλου Μ. Βελτιώνοντας την ποιότητα στις υπηρεσίες υγείας, Παπασωτηρίου 2009