1.Evaluation of Improvement Effects about Prescription Checking and Intervention Skills of Pharmacists in a Hospital
Ping FAN ; Yangyang GAO ; Yuezhou HUANG ; Meimei YANG ; Ting XU
China Pharmacy 2017;28(14):1998-2001
OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the improvement and rectification effects about prescription checking and intervention skills of pharmacists. METHODS:By retrospective investigation,2417 outpatient prescriptions and 1698 outpatient prescriptions were respectively selected from some one hospital during Oct.-Dec. 2015 (before improvement and rectification) and Jan.-Mar. 2016 (after improvement and rectification). According to standards,guidelines and references as Prescription Administrative Poli-cy,Prescription Review Management Standard(trial)and drug instructions,irrational drug use and prescription checking and inter-vention skills of pharmacists were compared before and after the implementation of rectification measures as optimizing hospital in-formation system,improving comprehensive skills of pharmacists,strengthening pharmacists'concept,establishing feedback mech-anism. RESULTS:After the implementation of rectification measures,unsuitable indications,clinical diagnosis inconsistent with medication,antibiotics use without indications,unsuitable usage and dosage,unsuitable drug combination and irrational drug use were all decreased,but repeated drug use was increased,without statistical significance (P>0.05). The number of non-standard prescriptions and unsuitable prescriptions checked by pharmacists were decreased,without statistical significance(P>0.05). The in-cidence of checking missing,excessive checking and checking error were all increased from 2.40%,0.99%,3.39% before im-provement and rectification to 0.47%,0.29%,0.77%,with statistical significance(P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS:The improvement and rectification measures of the hospital can improve comprehensive prescription checking and intervention skills of pharmacists. Ir-rational drug use should be further standardized.
2.Application of Mixture Uniform Design in Optimizing the Proportion and Releasing Mechanism Study of GA and GB Hydrophilic Gel Matrix Tablets
Li HOU ; Guosong ZHANG ; Chuanhua FENG ; Xiaoqian LIU ; Dongxun LI ; Yuesheng WANG ; Meimei FAN
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine 2016;23(10):82-86
Objective To optimize the prescription of GA and GB hydrophilic gel matrix tablets; To study the in vitro release mechanism. Methods On the basis of the results of the mono-factor investigation, mixture uniform design was used to optimize the handicraft molding prescription of GA and GB hydrophilic gel matrix tablets. The release mechanism was investigated by the vitro of the GA and GB hydrophilic gelmatrix tablets to accumulate releasing rate to conduct linear fitting. Results The optimized prescription of GA and GB hydrophilic gel matrix tablets was: powder: HPMC: lactose=23:24:53. Conclusion Mixture uniform design can be used to optimize the prescriptions of GA and GB hydrophilic gel matrix tablets, and the results are accurate. The hydrophilic gelmatrix tablets release medicine by non-Fick mechanism, and the medicine release is in accordance with zero-order.
3.Awareness of diagnosis and treatment for chronic hepatitis B among general practitioners at communities and effectiveness of its intervention
Xuefei DUAN ; Meimei TIAN ; Yunru LI ; Jingyuan LIU ; Jun CHENG ; Xiaoling FAN
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2010;09(12):852-854
Totally, 102 general practitioners (GPs) from 40 community health-care service centers in a district of Beijing were investigated for their awareness of diagnosis, treatment and prevention for chronic hepatitis B and evaluating effectiveness of their training with self-designed questionnaire before and after professional training.Before training, higher awareness of knowledge about prevention for hepatitis B had been achieved in GPs, such as "hepatitis C is communicable" (78/102, 76.5% ), "hepatitis B can be prevented by protective antibody" ( 76/102, 74.5% ), whereas only 3.9% ( 4/102 ) of GPs knew indications of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B, 4.9% (5/102) could describe complications of decompensated cirrhosis and 19.6% (20/102) knew methods for screening primary hepatocellular carcinoma.After training, their awareness increased significantly to 93.1% (95/102), 49.0% (50/102)and 86.3% (88/102), respectively (all P <0.01 ).Now, GPs' knowledge about diagnosis and treatment for hepatitis B is still insufficient at community health-care centers and professional training can improve their awareness.It is an important assurance for patients with chronic hepatitis B to be better managed in both of specialized hospitals and community health-care centers by enhancing professional training for GPs indiagnosis and treatment for hepatitis B.
4.Efficacy and safety of suvorexant for the treatment of primary insomnia among Chinese: A 6-month randomized double-blind controlled study
Baiya Fan ; Jing Kang ; Yalong He ; Meimei Hao ; Wei Du ; Shihong Ma
Neurology Asia 2017;22(1):41-47
Background: Insomnia often responds to the orexin receptor antagonist suvorexant. This study aimed to
evaluate the efficacy and adverse events of suvorexant for Chinese patients with primary insomnia over 6
months. Methods: A total of 120 patients with primary insomnia were assigned randomly to two groups
that received placebo or suvorexant (40 mg) for 6 months. The primary outcomes were the total sleep time
(sTST), time to sleep onset (sTSO), and sleep quality (sQUAL). The secondary outcomes were the Insomnia
Severity Index (ISI) score and adverse events. Results: A total of 111 patients completed the study and
all of them were included in the final analysis. Suvorexant showed greater efficacy than the placebo in
enhancing sTST, sTSO, sQUAL and ISI score at months 1 and 6. Serious adverse events were documented
in 2 patients (3.3%) in the suvorexant group and 1 patients (1.7%) in the placebo group. The most common
adverse event was somnolence, which occurred in 7 patients (11.7%) in the suvorexant group and 2 patients
(3.3%) in the placebo group. No death related to suvorexant treatment was recorded.
Conclusions: Suvorexant was efficacious and well-tolerated in a group of Chinese patients with primary
insomnia over 6 months.
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
5.The current status and influencing factors of compassion fatigue in clinical nurses
Meimei TIAN ; Lin FAN ; Yan SHI ; Xiaomei WEI ; Hui JIANG ; Yan WU ; Haiyan GU ; Lingling CHEN ; Jin ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Nursing 2018;53(1):76-82
Objective To investigate the current status and influencing factors of compassion fatigue in clinical nurses,and to provide theoretical references for prevention of nurse burnout and promotion of nurse retention.Methods Totally 992 clinical nurses from ten tertiary hospitals were enrolled through random cluster sampling to complete general information questionnaire,the Professional Quality of Life Scale (Pro-QOL-V),the Resilience Scale for Adults(RSA) and the Jefferson Scale of Empathy·Health Professionals(JSE-HP).Results The prevalence of moderate and high risk of secondary stress and burnout were 71.1%,73.2%,respectively;clinical nurses with work experience of 6 to 10 years presented the highest level of burnout(P<0.01);lower empathy and resilience,as well as adverse work environment were risk factors of compassion fatigue.Multiple regression analysis showed that the influencing factors of nurse burnout were compassion satisfaction,secondary stress,resilience,workload,recognition,empathy,and payment,which explained 70.5% of the total variance.Conclusion Secondary stress,burnout and compassion satisfaction in clinical nurses are influenced by nurses' empathy,resilience and work environment,and nursing administrators should pay attention to receiving recognition as positive predictors of burnout,except for workload and payment.