Title: Studies in pharmaceutical economics /
Authors: Smith, Mickey C.
Publisher: Haworth Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations economics; Drug Industry economics; Drugs Prices.; Pharmaceutical industry United States; Pharmaceutical industry; United States
Contents: Pt.1. Public policy issues -- The HEW task force on prescription drugs: an insider's perspective -- Health policy initiatives and the utility of economic research -- The technology trust fund: paying for medical technology -- Medicaid drug cost containment: an economic perspective -- Public policy and drug costs: legitimate and bastard options -- Pt.2. Interventions and controls -- The Iowa Pharmacy Capitation Experiment: economic incentives and provider performance -- Incorporating severity-of-illness measures into retrospective claims-based cost-effective analyses -- Initial impact of a Medicaid prior authorization program for NSAID prescriptions -- Effect of a medication utilization review on Medicaid health care expenditures: a case study of patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus -- Impact of an open formulary system on the utilization of medical services -- Pt.3. Analytical approaches -- A research framework for economic epidemiology -- Socioeconomic evaluation and the health care industry -- Assessment of a contingent valuation technique with utility estimation models -- Using repeated measures designs to evaluate interventions: a multivariate approach -- Pharmacoeconomic analysis of oral treatments for oncyhomycosis: a Canadian study -- QALYs in health outcomes research: representation of real preferences or another numberical abstraction? -- Pt.4. Prices and pricing -- Price control policies in the pharmacautical industry: a selection of case studies -- Why Medicaid pays more: a comparison of private payment and Medicaid prescription prices, quan