Chinese Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology 2001;10(1):19-21

Study on the Drug Utilization for Lower Respiratory Tract Diseases

Shengxin CHEN ; Jingxia ZHAO ; Zhigao HE ; Shuiyi WEI ; Lixin SHU

Keywords

Drug utilization; Acute physiology,Age and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE); Defined Daily Dose (DDDs)

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

To study the status and patterns of the drug utilization in the diseases of lower respiratory tract, the drug utilization for 290 inpatients with respiratory tract diseases in a Shanghai hospital druing 1993-1997 was analyzed by using Acute Physiology, Age, Chronic Health Evaluation(APACHE) and index of defined daily dose numbers(DDDs). The relativity between APACHE and DDDs was studied. It was found that most common drugs was anti-infection agents and expectorants, accounting for 39.06% and 38.38 %, respectively. The quantitative relationship between drug consumption and disease severity was not observed. It is concluded that the status of the drug utilization can't be demonstrated by analyzing the frequency of drug use by using DDDs.