• 1. Department of Pharmacy, Karamay Central Hospital, Karamay, 834000, P.R.China;
  • 2. Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
  • 3. Department of Pharmacy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
WU Min, Email: 1109637804@qq.com.cn; LI Youping, Email: yzmylab@hotmail.com
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Objective  To investigate drug usage and costs of ischemic stroke inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 and to provide evidence and reference for evidence-based pharmacy study of single disease in circulation system. Methods  The information of drug use and expenditure of ischemic stroke inpatients were collected from the hspital information system (HIS). We analyzed the data including frequency, proportion and cumulative proportion by Excel 2007 software. Results  We included 522 ischemic stroke inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014, the average age was 67.58±13.27 years old. Forty three kinds of drugs were used for ischemic stroke therapy. The total expenditure of drugs was 10.94 million and 1 807.99 yuan per person. The most used drugs were for symptomatic treatment which included 18 kinds of drugs. The using frequency of aspirin, edaravone, oxircetan were the highest. The secondary prevention medicines included 23 kinds of drugs. The anti-hypertensive, lipid-lowering and hypoglycemic agents were prescribed mostly. Traditional Chinese medicines were prescribed 234 times, and the injection Ligustrazine with glucose was the most used drug. Conclusion  The mainly drugs for treatment of ischemia stroke inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 are aspirin, edaravone and oxircetan; while the expenditure of clopidogrel and oxiracetam were the highest.

Citation: WANG Guotuan, YU Jiajie, WU Min, LI Youping, ZHANG Weidong, XU Ting, KUANG Liping, LU Jing, FANG Yiqing, SUN Xin, SU Guanyue. Drug usage and costs of inpatients with ischemic stroke in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2017, 17(8): 895-898. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201610065 Copy

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