Drug utilization studies : methods and uses

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dukes, M. N. G. [ (Maurice Nelson Graham)] (Author)
Corporate Author: World Health Organization . Regional Office for Europe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen : World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe , c1993
Series:WHO regional publications. European series no. 45
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. General background
  • 2. From clinical trials to drug utilization studies
  • 3. Therapeutic formularies, essential drugs, drugs utilization studies
  • 4. Descriptive tools and analysis
  • 5. The quantification of drug risks in practice
  • 6. The social aspects of drug use
  • 7. The economic aspects of drug use
  • 8. Health authorities and drug utilization studies
  • 9. Drug utilization and the health professions
  • 10. Consumers as instigators and users of drug utilization research
  • 11. Drug utilization and the teaching of rational drug use
  • 12. Drug utilization studies: their transferability between industrialized and developing countries