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OBJECTIVE:To understand the situation of essential medicines and promote their rational use in our hospital. METHODS:The prescription variety and cost percentages of essential medicines in outpatient department in the two halves years of 2013 in our hospital(eye and ENT specialized hospitals)were compared;the medicines with forefront prescription kind percent-ages in eye and ENT departments were sorted and rankings in 4 quarters were compared. RESULTS:After the approval of the Na-tional Essential Medicine List(2012 edition),compared with the first half year of 2013,prescription variety and cost percentages of essential medicines in outpatient department in the second half year were significantly increased (P<0.01). Prescription variety and cost percentages of essential medicines in eye department in the second half year were significantly increased(P<0.01),in the top 20 prescription variety,totally 2 kinds were contained by the list 2012 edition and 3 were contained by the supplementary list of Shanghai(2012 edition). Compared with the first half year of 2013,prescription variety and cost percentages of essential medi-cines in ENT department in the second half year were significantly decreased(P<0.01),the cost percentage was significantly in-creased(P<0.01),in the top 20 prescription variety,totally 2 kinds were contained by the list 2012 edition and 3 were contained by the supplementary list of Shanghai (2012 edition). CONCLUSIONS:The prescription variety and cost percentages of essential medicines in our hospital show increase trend. Nevertheless,the non-essential medicines are still dominant and further improvement of essential medicines is still needed. Medicine variety and dosage forms of eye in ENT department are insufficient concluded in Es-sential Medicine List. Further adjustment of Essential Medicine List still needs more consideration for the medication characteristics in specialized hospital.