• 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;
ZHANG Weidong, Email: 0990end@sohu.com.cn; LI Youping, Email: yzmylab@hotmail.com
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Objective  To investigate drug usage and costs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 and to provide evidence and reference for evidence-based pharmacy study on COPD. Methods  The information of drug use and expenditure of COPD inpatients were collected from the hospital information system (HIS). We analyzed the data including frequency, proportion and cumulative proportion by Excel 2007 software. Results  A total of 194 inpatients with COPD/AECOPD were included in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014, the average age was 74.28±7.81 years old. Fifty-three drugs were used for COPD treatment; the total frequency were 1 798 times and per capita cost was 7 419.78 yuan. The top three used drugs were budesonide suspension, montelukast tablets and methylprednisolone injection. In total expenditure, the cost of piperacillin-tazobactam, imipenem/cilastatin and moxifloxacin injection ranked top three. Conclusion  The top 3 used drugs are budesonide suspension, montelukast tablets and methylprednisolone injection for COPD inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014, while the top 3 total expenditure drugs are piperacillin-tazobactam, imipenem/cilastatin and moxifloxacin injection.

Citation: PENG Xueqin, YU Jiajie, ZHANG Weidong, LI Youping, WU Min, XU Ting, WANG Fei, LU Jing, ZHANG Shengzhao, SUN Xin, SU Guanyue. Drug usage and costs of inpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2017, 17(8): 888-891. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201611099 Copy

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