Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2017; 19(3):260-264
Objective. To estimate proportion of hard and surrogate endpoints used as effectiveness criteria in pharmacoeconomic studies of antimicrobial drugs.
Materials and Methods. The pharmacoeconomic studies of 30 antimicrobial agents proposed for inclusion in the Russian essential drug list in the 2014-2016 were reviewed.
Results. A total of 47 effectiveness criteria were analyzed, of them 40.4% were hard endpoints. Two studies of antifungal drugs used the hard endpoints only. The hard endpoints were used in 58.