title: [Evaluation of retard drug forms with special reference to their therapeutic aspects].
abstract: The useful development and application of controlled-release dosage forms is an important possibility to improve the pharmacotherapy of many diseases. However, according to the present social conditions of reproduction the introduction of a new drug has to be directed not only to a high therapeutic benefit but also to an increased social efficiency i.e., to an improvement of cost-benefit-relation. In the present study, therefore, the effect of using controlled-release dosage forms on the development of social efficiency is discussed. Basing on a comprehensive estimation of the therapeutic efficiency (therapeutic advantages and disadvantages) of controlled-release dosage forms the criteria of cost and benefit being of importance for a complex evaluation of efficiency are described.
authors.affiliation: Sektion Pharmazie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saale.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Köttig
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fahr
authors.forename: F U
authors.initials: FU
authors.lastname: Flöther
mesh_terms: D003692:Delayed-Action Preparations; D004358:Drug Therapy
chemical_list: D003692:Delayed-Action Preparations
vernacular_title: Effektivitätsbetrachtungen bei Retardarzneimitteln unter besonderer Berücksichtigung therapeutischer Aspekte.