Session:
Wednesday, 26 March 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:30pmThursday, 27 March 2014 - 8:30am to 10:00amRoom:
124
Facilitator:
Stemer, Gunar
Presenter:
ACPE UPN: 0475-0000-14-019-L04-P. An application based activity.
Abstract
Financial resources in healthcare are limited. Given the fact it is nowadays more important than ever that healthcare treatments offer satisfactory value regarding the money they cost. The economic efficiency of treatments is assessed through evaluations, where costs are related to outcomes and consequences of this treatment. By virtue of their profession, hospital pharmacists are especially interested in the economic efficiency of drugs. The hospital sector is one area where high cost drugs are widely prescribed, but propagated benefits are often unclear, vague or marginal. The cost-effectiveness, especially of new drugs entering the market, has meanwhile become a key criterion that pharmaceutical industry has to demonstrate and prove in relevant studies. Pharmacoeconomic evaluations are often required when deciding on questions of reimbursement, or regulating the availability of, or the access to, a new drug therapy. While taking care of the hospital drug budget, it is key for hospital pharmacists to make themselves familiar with the major concepts of pharmacoeconomic evaluations. The understanding of how they are performed and the knowledge to critically appraise the results belong to the most important skills of modern hospital pharmacists.
Teaching Goals:
- to introduce major concepts of pharmacoeconomics,
- to present quality criteria of pharmacoeconomics research,
- to discuss the implications of pharmacoeconomics study results with the help of illustrating examples.
Learning Objectives:
After participating in the workshop the participant should be able:
- to recall with basic principles of pharmacoeconomics studies,
- to distinguish between different pharmacoeconomics study types and describe possible resulting evidence of these different types.