Review on Outpatient Prescriptions of Antibiotics in Our Hospital in 2009

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of prescription writing in outpatient department of our hospital and to investigate the rationality in the use of antibiotics. METHODS: In a retrospective study,a total of 172 540 outpatient prescriptions in 2009 were randomly sampled for statistical analysis of the utilization of antibiotics. RESULTS: Antibiotics were prescribed in 90 720 (52. 28% ) of the total 172 540 prescriptions. The percentages of prescriptions prescribed 1,2 and 3 antibiotics were 69. 59% ,22. 34% and 8. 07% ,respectively. 8 219 (9. 06% ) prescriptions were nonstandard in writing and 7 738(8. 53% ) were irrational in drug use. CONCLUSION: The quality of the prescription writing and the drug utilization situation in the outpatient departments of our hospital were rational basically yet far from perfect. Thus it is urgent to tighten monitoring on the use of antibacterial to promote clinical rational drug use and improve prescription quality by taking intervention measures such as prescription evaluation.