Pharmacoeconomic aspects of antibacterial treatment with cefotaxime

Pharmacoeconomics is a relatively new discipline, which is becoming increasingly useful in the current climate of medical advances that continue despite limited access to healthcare resources. Pharmacoeconomics may be used as a tool, assisting healthcare decision makers to select clinically beneficial therapies and weigh clinical gain against expenditure. Cefotaxime has been shown in many studies to be a cost-effective antibiotic agent, its monetary value being augmented by its use in low dose, low frequency regimens. This cost-effectiveness, combined with a maintained broad spectrum of antibiotic activity, low propensity for selecting resistant bacterial strains and high therapeutic index, makes cefotaxime a suitable antibiotic agent in many indications involving mild-to-moderate infections by susceptible organisms.