Measuring Drug Efficiency: The New Gold Standard

• In: 4F - Steering better future decisions: comparative effectiveness research on Saturday, 6 October 2012, 14:00-17:00
• At: Amsterdam (the Netherlands) (2012)
• Type: Presentation
• By: WERTHEIMER, Albert (Temple University, Philadelphia, United States of America)
• Abstract:

  Pharmaceuticals have been judged and evaluated in various ways over the years. At the end of the 19
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  century, the measure for a drug’s value was whether or not it was safe. But wise persons recognized that safety was not a sufficient measure of a drug’s worth. It was important to know if the drug had a positive therapeutic impact, as well. The

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