Pharmacoeconomics

Catalog description

Pharmacoeconomics is one of the cornerstones of Health Outcomes Research. This course is designed to teach clinicians and new researchers how to incorporate pharmacoeconomics into study design and data analysis. Participants will learn how to collect and calculate the costs of different alternatives, determine the economic impact of clinical outcomes, and how to identify, track and assign costs to different types of health care resources used. This is a required course for the MS in Outcomes Research and Evaluation Sciences but may also be of interest to students in Public Health and Health Administration. This course contributes to the First Dimension by providing students with advanced skills in highly valued research area and contributes to the Second Dimension by developing students’ ability to effectively communication complex information.