Present Situation of Beijing#39;s old prescription drugs.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 162 Present Situation of Beijing#39;s old prescription drugs Abstract Objective: To understand the status of my medication in elderly patients, the elderly, medication requirements, the joint use of medicines in elderly patients and elderly patients the dose of medication daily (Daily drug dose, referred to as DDD) and so on, for the future elderly patients with reasonable clinical , safe, effective and economical use of drugs to prevent and control disease in elderly patients and improve the quality of life of older persons to provide a reliable scientific basis. Methods: Beijing 22 hospitals “Prescription Analysis” Task Force 2 for the year 1998,1999 outpatient prescription database (the database per month for random 3d prescription prescription, the database will be established as prescribed in the division, patient age, gender, treatment date and the use of medicines that drug names, specifications, quantity, amount, respectively entered into the computer), using FOXPRO software, statistical analysis of their data will be the elderly and medication treatment status of investigations and studies, and with the overall population to do comparative studies. Subjects and content: “60 years of age the number of elderly out-patient and outpatient prescription drugs that the drug species, the average number of varieties drugs, drug doses (each, daily, cumulative dose), route of administration, combination therapy and joint use Drug kinds of numbers (up to a minimum and average), drug use frequency, the actual medication drug DDD values, divisions and with the national essential drugs such as medication compliance. Results and Conclusion: The treatment prescription rate for the elderly, Beijing, 19.9%, each treatment the number of prescriptions combination therapy an average of 2.71 kinds of species than in the general medicine clinic population the average number of above 0.27 kinds of varieties, each in elderly patients 100 cases of-use