par Leclercq, Pol 
;Bigdeli, Maryam
Référence Revue médicale de Bruxelles, 16, 4, page (320-324)
Publication Publié, 1995
;Bigdeli, Maryam Référence Revue médicale de Bruxelles, 16, 4, page (320-324)
Publication Publié, 1995
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | In the field of antibiotic therapy, particularly the methods of economic evaluation attract one's attention within the wide range of health economics' applications. Several tools allow a comparison of the outcomes of alternative strategies and thereby guide choices to the most appropriate solutions. After a brief recalling of the methods classically used to evaluate a health care strategy, the authors lay stress upon the importance and difficulty of fixing and applying a correct and contenting procedure for evaluation. An evaluation example of antibiotic therapy allows to illustrate the application of the principles in front of a field in which competition is intense and economic stakes stay large - a fact which naturally yields to seek after objective decision making criteria. The health care policies draw by public authorities as well as the marketing strategies of the health sector trade are partly based on such evaluations. If these techniques are not intended for the practitioner in the first place, they should not be indifferent to him since they influence health authorities and thereby indirectly affect the therapeutic liberty of the physician. |
