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Acta medica Croatica : Časopis Akademije medicinskih znanosti Hrvatske, Vol. 70 No. 2, 2016.

Review article

PHARMACOECONOMICS – CHALLENGES FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

PETRA TURČIĆ orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-8257 ; Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
VANESA BENKOVIĆ ; Croatian Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Health Economics, Zagreb, Croatia
OGNJEN BRBOROVIĆ ; University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
ANĐA VALENT ; Polytechnic of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Over the last 30 years, medical expenditure has increased throughout the world. The main reasons estimated to lay behind it include aging, ever more chronic diseases and new emerging diseases, new drugs, expanded indications of current drugs, and development of pharmaceutical industry. A challenge for healthcare professionals is to sustain current quality of care and enable medical innovations while attempting to contain costs. The overall goal is to demonstrate the
pharmacoeconomic value, i.e. a balance of economic, humanistic and clinical outcomes.

Keywords

pharmacoeconomics; analysis; outcomes; perspectives; cost

Hrčak ID:

165170

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/165170

Publication date:

7.9.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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