title: [Decision analysis in antibiotic therapy].
abstract: Decision analysis constitutes a systematic approach for taking decisions in situations of uncertainty. This technique allows one to evaluate all therapeutic options and to quantify the possible results, with a view to selecting therapeutic regimens that have the best cost-effectivity relationship. Cost-benefict and cost-effectiveness studies have become increasingly more interesting in the evaluation of antibiotic therapy. In the present paper a review is offered of all factors that, both in antibiotic prophylaxis and the treatment of established infections, govern the cost-effectivity relationship of one's decisions. A review is also made of the methodology of decision analysis, whose use in antiinfective therapy seems sufficiently clear, specially as an objective criterion in the choice of antibiotics.
authors: Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Salamanca.
authors: M V
authors: MV
authors: Calvo
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Domínguez-Gil
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
vernacular_title: Análisis de decisión en la terapéutica antibiótica.