Objective To investigate the medication usage in 55 children with urinary tract stones due to
melamine contaminated milk powder who were treated in West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University werecollected.
Methods The hospital’s patient records for the 55 melamine poisoning cases leading to urinary tract stones.
Using Assess and excel software to analyze the frequency and sum of drug use, as well the average daily costs and per capitacost for patients.
Results For the 55 cases of urinary tract stones, a total of 19 categories and 117 kinds of drugs were used. It was been found that Herba Lysimachiae granules were the most used medicine. The most costly was Cefminox, and finally the drug used in the highest quantity was 0.9 percent sodium chloride injection, the drug cost distribution is unevenness.
Conclusions The rationality valuation for children medication lacks of international vulgate index, methodology and needs more basic research. It is worth to study the burden of children with basic disease.
Citation: HAN Lu,DAI Jing,ZENG Linan,GUO Yuanchao,LUO Can,ZHANG Lingli. Medication Usage Analysis of the 55 Children with Urinary Tract Stones Caused by Melamine. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2009, 09(4): 408-412. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20090077 Copy
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