Pharmacoeconomic aspects of antibacterial treatment with cefotaxime.
Pharmacoeconomics is a relatively new discipline, which is becoming increasingly useful in the current climate of medical advances that continue despite limited access to healthcare resources. Pharmacoeconomics may be used as a tool, assisting healthcare decision makers to select clinically beneficial therapies and weigh clinical gain against expenditure. Cefotaxime has been shown in many studies to be a cost-effective antibiotic agent, its monetary value being augmented by its use in low dose, low frequency regimens. This cost-effectiveness, combined with a maintained broad spectrum of antibiotic activity, low propensity for selecting resistant bacterial strains and high therapeutic index, makes cefotaxime a suitable antibiotic agent in many indications involving mild-to-moderate infections by susceptible organisms.
Cooke
J
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South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust, Manchester, UK.
Doreau
C
C
Eandi
M
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D002439:Cefotaxime / Q000191:economics* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002511:Cephalosporins / Q000191:economics* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans
D002511:Cephalosporins; D002439:Cefotaxime