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Decisions, Computers and Medicines: The Informatics of Pharmacotherapy
Decisions Computers and Medicines The Informatics of Pharmacotherapy Author:Tibor Deutsch, D. G. Cramp, Ewart R. Carson Hardbound. In virtually all countries concerns are being expressed over the rising cost of the medicines component of health budgets, the safety of medicines, their inappropriate use and more recently ethical issues arising from the use of therapies resulting from developments in molecular biology and genetics. Purchasers of pharmaceuticals dem... more »and value for money as well as efficacy and safety in order to use their resources more efficiently. Furthermore, they expect companies in the pharmaceutical industry to provide economic arguments for the use of each product. Pharmaceutical companies have responded by recognising that relative clinical benefits, quality of life, the effect on disease management and individual patient outcomes are more realistic measures by which their products can be judged and evaluated.The efficacy of a drug is determined primarily through randomised controlled clinical trials. However, because of the outcomes already de« less