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Name |
Elfatih Ibrahim Elamin |
| Nationality |
Sudanese |
| Supervisors |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Izham Mohammad Ibrahim |
| Student
Status |
Master |
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E-mail |
Abuesra2002@yahoo.com |
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Research
Topic |
Pharmacoeconomics of
Tuberculosis Treatment |
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Project
Summary |
Clinical
economics (pharmacoeconomics) is a new field concerned with
description and analysis of costs of drug therapy to
healthcare systems and society. This research concentrates
on a branch of pharmacoeconomics studies, called cost of
illness that took tuberculosis disease as a base for the
study; in which calculate; direct medical cost as the cost
of hospitalization, physician visits, medical officers
visits, prescription medication, diagnostic laboratory
tests, X-ray films, cost of equipment and supplies and cost
of time taken by other healthcare workers. Indirect medical
cost includes cost of transportation to and from Penang
Hospital, cost of estimated consumption of buildings,
vehicles and other furniture during this period, telephone
bills, electric bills and water bills. Indirect cost; time
lost due to illness or disability. Intangible costs that
include cost of pain, suffering and anxiety are excluded.
Calculation of all costs according to societal perspective. |
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