RESUMEN
The overuse of drugs and the irrational increase in medical expenses are currently hot social issues. Standards need to be set in a strict way so as to reasonably contain the cost of medical and health care and die prices of drugs and to lower the expenses of medical services. Analyses conducted in our hospital indicate that the component ratio of the drug income fell from 48.1% in January through June, 2001 to 38.7% one year later; the hospital's overall income in January through June, 2002 dropped 5.3% as compared with the same period of 2001, with the drug income dropping 23.7% and the medical treatment income rising 11.8%; the average expenses bom by emergency outpatients and discharged patients in January through June, 2002 both lowered as compared with the same period of 2001. The authors hold that the component ratio of the drug income ought to be a key index in assessing the integrated management Wei of a hospital; the proportion of the drug income in the overall income of a hospital ought to be restricted to 40% or so; and when general plans are being made for a hospital as a whole with regard to the proportion of the drug income, different standards ought to be set for various specialties.