• 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 angina 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 angina inpatients were collected from the hospital information system (HIS). We analyzed the data including frequency, proportion and cumulative proportion by Excel 2007 software. Results  We included 351 angina inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 whose average age was 69.44±10.65 years old. Fifty-one kinds of drugs were used for angina therapy. The expenditure of drugs was 122.46 yuan per person. The symptomatic treatment drugs included 11 kinds of drugs. The top 3 usage drugs were isosorbide denigrates, aspirin, nitroglycerin. The secondary prevention medicines included 35 kinds of drugs, and were prescribed for 1 953 times; the anti-hypertensive drugs were most prescribed. The Chinese patent medicine were prescribed for 69 times. The compound Danshen dripping pill was the most prescribed drug. In total expenditure, the cost of clopidogrel, atorvastatin, irofiban ranked top three. Rivaroxaban, tirofiban, low molecular weight heparin were the top 3 drugs for per-time expenditure. Conclusion  The top 3 used drugs are isosorbide denigrates, aspirin, nitroglycerin for angina inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014, while the top 3 total expenditure drugs are clopidogrel, atorvastatin and irofiban.

Citation: KUANG Liping, YU Jiajie, WU Min, LI Youping, ZHANG Weidong, XU Ting, WANG Guotuan, LU Jing, FANG Yiqing, SU Guanyue. Drug usage and costs of inpatients with angina in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2017, 17(8): 899-902. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201610066 Copy

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