ESPACOMP 1997

LOWLANDS 1997

The 1997 symposium on patient compliance and persistence was held at the University of Gent on December 4.

Program

13:00-14:00  Welcome with sandwiches and beverages

14:00-14:30  Estimating annual prevalence of drug usage from annual sales data and dosage patterns
Robert Vander Stichele

14:30-15:00   Expressing variable drug exposure
Erik de Klerk

15:00-15:30  Drug-regimen compliance wirth medicines prescribed to be taken once or twice daily – insights from continuous electronic monitoring
Wolfgang von Renteln-Kruse

15:30-15:50 Break

15:50-16:20  Non-compliance and dose-response relations
Els Goetghebeur

16:20-16:50  Dose definition in relation to DDDs
Bert leufkens

16:50-17:20  Cost cutting by dose cutting of high-cost pharmaceuticals
John Urquhart

17:20-17:50  Round table discussion and conclusions

18:00 “borrel” and transfer to restaurant “de Blauwe Zalm”

Conference venue: Gent University – Heymans Institute (5th floor) -De pintelaan 185 – 9000 Gent – Belgium