Analysis on outpatients' awareness of the essential medicine system and their intention to use it in county hospitals

VernacularTitle:县级医院门诊患者对基本药物制度的认知情况及使用意愿分析
Author: Shuman XU ; Hua LU ; Jingya WU ; Heng WANG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Essential medicine system; County hospital; Patients; Awareness; Usage intention
From: Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration 2013;29(7):492-495
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate outpatients' awareness of the essential medicine system and their intention to use it at county hospitals,analyze the problems in the implementation process and give suggestions.Methods Using questionnaires to survey randomly intercepted patients.Data so acquired were keyed in twice with Epidata 3.0 and SPSS 16.0 was used for analysis featuring descriptive statistics.Results Among the 1064 patients surveyed,only 159 (14.9％)have heard of essential medicines,and the top three ways of awareness were respectively from medical staff,television and Internet; patients pay most attention to drug efficacy in their daily life and the majority of them follow doctors' advices.Conclusion It is necessary to strengthen promotions,formulate diversified publicity strategy,train doctors to guide patients to use essential medicines rationally.