RESUMEN
OBJECTIVE: To provide references for promoting the extensive application of pharmacoeconomics as soon as possible in China.METHODS: The causes of late beginning and slow progress of the application of pharmacoeconomics in China were analyzed systematically and comprehensively.RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS: The main causes accountable for the late beginning and slow progress of the application of pharmacoeconomics in China included the absence of management mission and targets in the concerned departments,obsolete philosophy of management,misunderstanding of the medicine economy,distortion of payer's real need in the drug use process,and lack of necessary norms in the spontaneous evaluation work.The primary measure to accelerate the extensive application of pharmacoeconomics is to define the task of relevant top control agencies and to find the entry point of pharmacoeconomics in the existing spontaneous research work.