"Analysis of the Utilization of Essential Medicines in a Community Health Service Center in Foshan before and after the""New Medical Reform"""
10.6039/j.issn.1001-0408.2017.18.19
- VernacularTitle:"""新医改""实施前后佛山市某社区卫生服务中心的基本药物使用情况分析"
- Author:
Zhenshu WANG
;
Chengsong WAN
- Keywords:
New Medical Reform;
National Essential Medicine System;
Community health service center;
Rational use
- From:
China Pharmacy
2017;28(18):2512-2516
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for the further promotion ofNew Medical Reformand the further implementa-tion and improvement of National Essential Medicine System. METHODS:By systematic sampling,1728 outpatient prescriptions were randomly selected from a community health service center in Foshan during 2012 to 2015,and then analyzed and compared statistically in respects of the amount of drugs,rational drug use indexes,prescription cost,main disease composition,treatment cost. The change rules and characteristics of all the above mentioned information were all studied. RESULTS:The average number of medicines per prescription and the number of essential medicines decreased year by year,Comparied with 2012,the proportion of antimicrobial agents,the proportion of two or more antimicrobial agents,the proportion of injection prescription and the propor-tion of transfusion prescription were significantly reduced,the cost of medical treatment of patients decreased significantly;medi-cine cost and medicare reimbursement amount had increased to different extents,there was statistical significance(P<0.05). Multi-ple linear regression analysis(stepwise)showed that the cost of medical treatment was closely related to rationality of prescriptions. Respiratory diseases,cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases,gastrointestinal diseases were the top 3 of the major diseases, the proportion of prescriptions for respiratory diseases,gastrointestinal diseases decreased year by year,while that for cardiovascu-lar and cerebrovascular diseases increased year by year. CONCLUSIONS:The promotion ofNew Medical Reformand the imple-mentation of National Essential Medicine System play a positive role in promoting rational drug use and the quality of medical ser-vice in community health service center. However,there are still many problems in the community health service centers,such as too many medicines each prescription,the lack of diagnosis and treatment ability,the defects of medicine selection and administra-tion.
