ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the writing quality of Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions and the medication status in our hospital to promote standard prescription writing and rational administration.METHODS:A total of 11 018 Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions were randomly sampled from outpatient dispensary of traditional Chinese medicine in our hospital in 2006 to find out the non-standard and irrational prescriptions with age and sex,clinical diagnosis,dosage form,specification,usage,and the consumption sum of drugs as main indexes.RESULTS:Of the total Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions,27.85%(3 068)were non-standard in writing,of which,0.47% were without items of age and sex,5.59% without clinical diagnosis,2.72% without dosage form,1.39% without usage,23.64% were unclear in specification and dosage;the prescriptions in which only one drug was prescribed accounted for 90.86%;30.51% were prescriptions for special group;and 5.92% had a prescription consumption sum of no less than 200 yuan(≥200 yuan).CONCLUSION:The quality of Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions in our hospital remains to be further improved.