• Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
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Objective  To evaluate and select essential medicine for diabetes mellitus based on the burden of disease.
Methods  By means of the approaches, criteria, and workflow set up in the second article of this series, we referred to the recommendations of evidence-based or authority guidelines from inside and outside China, collected relevant evidence from domestic clinical studies, and recommended essential medicine based on evidence-based evaluation. Data were analyzed by Review Manager (RevMan) 5.1 and GRADE profiler 3.6 to evaluate quality of evidence.
Results  (1) Six guidelines were included, three of which were evidence-based and published from 2006 to 2011. (2) Five recommended medicines were included according to recommendations and evidence of WHOEML (2011), NEML (2009), CNF (2010) and other guidelines. They were metformin, glibenclamide, glipizide, rosiglitazone and pioglitazone. Domestic evidence of the first three drugs was evaluated. (3) The first three have been marketed with the specifications and dosage forms corresponding to guidelines in China. The FBG cost-effectiveness ratios of metformin with different dosage forms as immediate release compressed tablet, enteric-coated tablet and sustained release capsule were 3.37, 3.76 and 3.50 respectively. 2-hour BG cost-effectiveness ratios of metformin were 3.74, 4.00 and 3.71 respectively. The cost-effectiveness ratio of glibenclamide and glimepiride were 11.23 and 13.81 respectively.
Conclusion  We offer a recommendation for: (1) Metformin (immediate release tablet/capsule for oral use, 0.25 g), contraindicated in patients with renal insufficiency. (2) Glibenclamide (tablet, 2.5 mg; capsule, 1.75 mg) and glipizide (tablet, 2.5 or 5mg; dispersible tablet, 5 mg), contraindicated in children, women during pregnancy or lactation, patients in the perioperative period of major operation, patients after total pancreatectomy, and patients allergic or adversely reacted to sulfa drug. (3) Evidence-based and standardized primary healthcare guidelines as well as clinical and pharmacoeconomic studies on diabetes mellitus (large-scale, multi-centre, randomized and double-blinded) are needed to produce high-quality local evidence.

Citation: LI Xiao,YANG Zongxia,LI Youping,LI Honghao,SHEN Jiantong,WANG Li,YANG Xiaoyan,LI Cuicui,WANG Yingqiang. Evidence-Based Evaluation and Selection of Essential Medicine for Township Health Centre in China: 19. Diabetes Mellitus. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2012, 12(8): 1017-1023. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20120158 Copy

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