Cost-effectiveness analysis for the use of serum antiepileptic drug level monitoring in children diagnosed with structural-metabolic epilepsy

• Main Authors: Saliha, Muhammad R.M., Bahari, Mohd. Baidi, Shafie, Asrul Akmal, Ahmad Hassalic, Mohamed Azmi, Baderaldeen , Omer Qutaiba, Abd, Arwa Y., Ganesan, Vigneswari M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc. 2012
• Subjects: RS Pharmacy and materia medica
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/28908/1/Omer_cost_effectiveness_analysis.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/28908/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092012111200280X

Treatment with antiepileptic drugs is commonly guided by serum level monitoring. Such monitoring requires expensive laboratory equipment and products. However, well-conducted studies on the cost-effectiveness of therapeutic drug monitoring for antiepileptic drugs are lacking particularly in patients...