PHARM 618Applied Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics

This course will take a practical approach to health economics and pharmacoeconomics. Students will learn about relevant methods of evaluating diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in order to optimize individualized patient care and inform policy decision, including those in which a fixed amount of resources are an important consideration. Topics include preference-based measures of health-related quality of life and quality-adjusted life years, key principles of economic evaluation and decision-analytic modeling, and critical appraisal of economic evaluation studies. Students will also learn to use decision analysis software to build and test their own pharmacoeconomics analyses.