This paper reviews the published literature on the role of pharmacoeconomics for the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacoeconomics is analysed as a part of decision processes at several stages of drug development and drug marketing. The review is focused on the practices of the application of pharmacoeconomics in various countries in Europe. In particular, the drivers for the development of pharmacoeconomics within the pharmaceutical companies are described. Investments made by companies with respect to the pharmacoeconomic function in terms of personnel and budgets are derived. / Results of literature analysis show, that much is published about the rationale for pharmacoeconomics, and the strength and weakness of different methods used. However there is limited published about the strategic component of pharmacoeconomics from the view of the pharmaceutical industry in Europe and the conclusions drawn from the external influence on pricing and reimbursement on investment and resource allocation into the pharmacoeconomic function. In spite of these restrictions it can be concluded, that the published data show an increasing importance of the pharmacoeconomic function in the pharmaceutical companies in Europe. / Faced with the enormous increase of publications of pharmacoeconomic studies in the last years there is little doubt, that these evaluations are mainly sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry although exact figures are not available. Around 19% of the companies outsourced at least 75% of their budget for pharmacoeconomic evaluations. The pharmacoeconomic staff level tended to increase substantially with company size although the amount of budget is still quite small. About 1% of pharmaceutical research and development was spent for the pharmacoeconomic function. It can be expected that within Europe the pharmacoeconomic function will continue to grow importance in the pharmaceutical industry in the next years. / Thesis (PhDBusinessAdministration)--University of South Australia, 2003.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. / Sokol, Joel, Committee Member ; Wang, Qiong, Committee Member ; Kertz, Robert, Committee Member ; Griffin, Paul, Committee Member ; Deng, Shijie, Committee Chair. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-229).

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 67).

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leave 93-96).