| CODE | PHR5009 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Specialisation in Pharmacoeconomics | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 20 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Pharmacy | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | - Consumption of medicines and non-medicines, the impact of socio-economic factors and pharmaceutical industry actions on prescribing and consumption; - Measuring the costs and outcomes of medicines/non-medicines use; - Cost-benefit, cost-minimisation, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis, evidence-based technologies and pharmacoeconomic analysis, using pharmacoeconomic analyses to make formulary decisions and set prices; and - Reference pricing, evidence-based procurement techniques. Study-unit Aims: To provide students with an understanding of methods used to measure consumption, beneficial and adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness of health technologies. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Understand the techniques used to measure medicinal and non-medicinals consumption; 2. Understand factors that influence prescribing and consumption; 3. Understand methods used to measure beneficial and adverse effects. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Be able to correctly interpret data on consumption and effects; 2. Understand techniques used in measuring cost-effectiveness and cost-benefits; and 3. Be able to correctly interpret pharmacoeconomic data and understand how data can be used to set prices and control health-systems budgets. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: 1. Pradelli L, Wertheimer A. Pharmacoeconomics: Principles and Practice. SEEd Medical Publishers. 2012. 2. Rascati K,Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Second Edition. 2014. 3. Getzen Thomas E. Health Economics. Fundamentals and Flow of Funds. John Wiley & Sons. Second Edition. 2003. 4. Briggs A, Claxton K, Sculpher M. Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation. Oxford University Press. 2006. 5. Drummond M.F, Sculpher M.J, Claxton K, Stoddart G.L, Torrance G.W. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford University Press. Fourth Edition. 2015. 6. Elliott R, Payne K. Essentials of Economic Evaluation in Healthcare. UK: Pharmaceutical Press, 2005. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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