HIS-based analysis of clinical characteristics and combined treatment of Chinese and western medicine in diabetes deaths.
- Author:
De JIN
1
;
Yan-Ming XIE
1
;
Yin ZHANG
1
;
Jun-Jie JIANG
1
;
Yi-Kai ZHANG
2
;
Yan ZHUANG
3
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: combined medication; diabetes; hospital information system; real world; time theory of traditional Chinese medicine
- From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2016;41(11):2007-2014
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: To understand the clinical characteristics and distribution of combined treatment of Chinese and western medicine in diabetes deaths, the hospitalization information of diabetes deaths from HIS system of 20 national 3A-grade general hospitals. Then the frequency statistics and association rules analysis were used to analyze the general information, complications, combined treatment, death time and other information of the patients died from diabetes. The results showed that most of the diabetes deaths were of middle aged and elderly people, more often in males than females. The complications with higher incidence included hypertension, pulmonary infection, coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction and renal inadequacy. In combined treatment rules, western medicines insulin, cefuroxime, furosemide, dopamine, nikethamide and sodium bicarbonate were used in combination at highest frequencies, followed by the combinations of traditional Chinese medicines panax notoginseng, radix bupleuri and western medicines, and the combinations between Chinese medicines had the lowest use frequency. Most of the diabetes deaths were of middle aged and elderly people, more often in males than females. They mainly died from 3 pm to 5 pm and from 5 pm to 7 pm. Therefore, the diabetes deaths often had complications of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and early prevention shall be noted in clinics; the clinical treatment plan was basically in accordance with the guidelines for clinical treatment of diabetes; the drugs with promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and soothing liver-qi stagnation effects were the common Chinese medicines in treatment of diabetes.
