Socioeconomic Evaluation of Drug Therapy

Opening Address.- I: The Role of Economics in Drug Therapy.- 1. The Changing Economic Milieu in the United States.- 2. The Economic Milieu in Europe: View of the Common Market.- 3. The Economic Milieu in Europe: View of the Pharmaceutical Industry.- 4. Pharmaceuticals and Decision-making in the United States: Cost Consciousness and the Changing Locus of Control.- 5. What Price Pharmaceutical Innovation?.- 6. The Medical, Social, and Economic Implications of Disease.- 7. From Medical to Socioeconomic Evaluation of Drug Therapy.- 8. Discussion of Part I.- II: Measuring the Effectiveness of Drug Therapy - The Economic Criteria.- 9. Cost-Effectiveness Study of Pharmaceuticals: Methodological Considerations.- 10. The Impact of Angina Pectoris on the Patient and the Influence of Treatment.- 11. The Socioeconomic Study Program on Nitroderm TTS.- 12. Cost - Cost Comparisons of Nitroderm TTS in Switzerland and Austria.- 13. The Cost-Effectiveness of Transdermal Nitroglycerin in the Michigan Medicaid Program: A Preliminary Report.- 14. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Angina Prophylaxis in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 15. Discussion of Part II.- III: Measuring the Effectiveness of Drug Therapy - Social and Qualitative Criteria.- 16. Quality of Life - Principles and Methodology.- 17. Quality of Life in Angina Pectoris: A Swedish Randomized Cross-over Comparison Between Transiderm-Nitro and Long-Acting Oral Nitrates.- 18. Transdermal Nitrate Therapy in Coronary Heart Disease from the Patient's Point of View - A Quality of Life Study in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 19. Angina Pectoris Prophylaxis and Quality of Life.- 20. Physician and Patient Preference.- 21. Patient Compliance in the Prophylaxis of Angina Pectoris.- 22. Discussion of Part III.- IV: Panel Discussionon the Outlook for Socioeconomic Evaluation of Drug Therapy.- 23. Outlook for Socioeconomic Evaluation of Drug Therapy: Science's Point of View.- 24. Outlook for Socioeconomic Evaluation of Drug Therapy: Society's