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Principles of Pharmacoeconomics

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Pharmacoeconomics represents about the 15 % of health budgets of many nations (Chunningham 2001). This is particularly relevant for patients with multiple chronic conditions taking on average more medications or critically ill patients that could have a long-term hospital or intensive care units (ICU) stay (Johnson 2002). In this chapter an overview on pharmacoeconomics is presented correlating the choice of i.v. fluid to costs. It is possible to reduce significantly the costs, optimizing clinical benefits.

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  1. Anesthesia, Department of Intensive Care and Pain Management, Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Via A. Del Portillo, 200 00128, Rome, Italy

    Felice Eugenio Agrò MD, Marialuisa Vennari MD & Maria Benedetto MD

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  1. Felice Eugenio Agrò MD
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  1. Dept. Anesthesiol. & Anesthesiol. Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Dabbagh

  2. Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Fardad Esmailian

  3. Divisions of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Sary F. Aranki

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Agrò, F.E., Vennari, M., Benedetto, M. (2014). Principles of Pharmacoeconomics. In: Dabbagh, A., Esmailian, F., Aranki, S. (eds) Postoperative Critical Care for Cardiac Surgical Patients. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40418-4_3

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