药物经济学的研究方法及应用

Methodology of Pharmacoeconomic Studies and Its Application

药物经济学是以卫生经济学为基础而建立发展的一门新型边缘学科。它将经济学的基本原理、方法和分析技术运用于临床治疗过程,从而合理分配和使用有限的卫生资源和医疗经费,使药物安全、有效、经济地为病人服务。进行分析时的关键步骤包括:详细、具体地阐明研究目的,明确要比较的不同方案和求得每一项的成本及结果。文章重点介绍了目前几种常用的药物经济学研究方法,包括成本分析、最小成本分析、成本效果分析、成本效用分析和成本效益分析,为药物经济学研究的实际应用提供参考。

Pharmacoeconomics, a new frontier science, has been set - up and developed on the basis of health economics. It applies the basic principle, methodology and analytical technology of economic evaluation to medical intervention processes aiming at the rational allocation and use of limited national medical resourses and lightening the heavy burden on both government and patients. The strategic decisions in the economic evaluation are the perspective of the proposed study, the choice of the comparator, the analytic framework and to whom the results will be reported. The article gave an in - depth analysis of several commonly used forms of economic evaluation.