Sana College of Pharmacy, Kodad, Andhra Pradesh,-508 206, India.

Bhaskar Pharmacy College, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500 034, India.
Pharmacoepidemiology ,Therapeutic drug monitoring ,Pharmacoeconomics ,

Pharmacoepidemiology borrows from both pharmacology and epidemiology. Thus, pharmacoepidemiology is the bridge between both pharmacology and epidemiology. Pharmacology is the study of the effect of drugs and clinical pharmacology is the study of effect of drugs on clinical humans. Part of the task of clinical pharmacology is to provide a risk benefit assessment by effects of drugs in patients: doing the studies needed to provide an estimate of the probability of beneficial effects on populations, or assessing the probability of adverse effects on populations. Also this review focusing several types of pharmacoeconomic evaluation: cost-minimization analysis, cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis.

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