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Drug therapy: safety, effectiveness, and economics
1Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Farmacy Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. mfbrandy@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Przeglad Lekarski
|July 14, 2001
Abstract:
The problems of safety, effectiveness and economics of a drug therapy are discussed. Adverse drug reactions (ADR) represent not only a humanistic problem but also an epidemiological and economic one. The incidents and costs of ADRs are described, as well as pharmacovigilance and pharmacoeconomics as a tool of rationalizing the expenditures on health care.