Analysis on The Utilization of Chinese Traditional Patent Medicines in Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University During 2007-2010

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the utilization of Chinese traditional patent medicines in our hospital for providing scientific basis of clinical rational use of drugs.METHODS: The data about annual consumption sum and consumption amount of Chinese traditional patent medicines in our hospital during 2007-2010 were collected for statistical analysis regarding the annual consumption sum,DDDs and DDC.RESULTS: The annual consumption sum of Chinese traditional patent medicines showed an upward trend in our hospital during 2007-2010.Of all the dosage forms of Chinese traditional patent medicines,capsule,injection and granula ranked the top three on the list of consumption sum;of all the single kinds of Chinese traditional patent medicines,blood-regulation recipes,heat-clearing prescription and tonifying prescription ranked the top 3 on the list of consumption sum.Injections took the lead on the consumption sum whereas oral Chinese traditional patent medicines took the lead on the list of DDDs.CONCLUSION: The use of Chinese traditional patent medicines in our hospital was rational on the whole,which played an important role in the treatment of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases or tumors as an adjunctive therapy and health care.