Pharmacoeconomics research and drug development

Key words: 
• pharmacoeconomic research /
• drug development /
• cost-effective analysis

Abstract: The pharmacoeconomic studies of a pharmaceutic agent may be planned and conducted early in its development process and continue throughout its use cycle. The driving forces are a rapid increase in population, the lack of health care resources, and cost containment control on the use of medicines. This paper describes pharmacoeconomic researchs at several stages of drug development and the benefit to drug development from pharmacoeconomic studies.