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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Drug trade names to patient harm and the solution [Abstract] This paper describes the trade name drugs bring harm to the patient and proposes some solutions, and asked the health and related departments have used generic drugs, banned drugs trade names, ensure that the people of the safety of drug use. [Keywords:] drug trade name; patient; hazards; solution Generic drug names (according to composition, global unity), and trade names (pharmaceutical manufacturers developed) categories. In the patent period, the drug can only be developed by the original manufacturers to produce, under normal circumstances there is only one trade name. But the patent period, generic drugs unrestricted dozens or even hundreds of pharmaceutical companies can manufacture the same drugs, and have their own trade names, leading to clinically used 1 more than 000 kinds of medicine, there are a thousand trade names in use, and continues to expand into. Statistics show that China’s annual patients hospitalized due to Chi Cuoyao 250 million, drug trade name confusion is leading to medication errors is one important reason. China’s Drug name confusion has seriously affected patient safety, clinical medicine and medical information, communication, strengthen drug use and management of trade names imminent. Because of such reasons, the Ministry of Health together with relevant departments decided to May 1, 2007 from all hospitals use the generic name of prescription drugs, through the application of more than a year, not very satisfactory, there are some doctors are not accustomed to using the generic name. For example, one of China’s drug trade names With the development of market economy, drug manufacturers gradually increase brand awareness, more and more brand name drugs, but also exposed many problems. More than one drug: such as antibiotic azithromycin, trade names, there was Qi, Jin-bo, Weihong, Ya Sida, send fun, Zithromax, to express Rocand, Bo anti-Thai