Establishment and Practice of Information Management Platform for Cancer Pain and Chronic Pain Patients in Outpatient Department / 中国药房

OBJECTIVE: To complete standardized management and follow-up for the cancer pain and chronic pain patients in outpatient department. METHODS: Information management platform was designed and established for cancer pain and chronic pain patients in outpatient department, including information entry, information inquiry, prompt for drug dispensing in advance, file unified management and regular scanning and removing excess medical records. The procedure of prescribing narcotic drugs for first visiting, subsequent visiting and follow-up patients was introduced. File management and prescription rationality before and after the establishment of information platform were compared. The adoption of pharmacist' s recommendation after the establishment of information platform were counted. RESULTS: Compared with before the establishment of information platform, the ratio of problematic profiles decreased from 42. 96％ to 7. 06％ (P＜0. 05); the ratio of irrational prescription decreased from 4. 39％ to 1. 19％ (P＜0. 05). Pharmacists provided a total of 1 542 recommendations for the patients with poor pain control and ADR. The adoption rate of the pharmaceutical recommendations was 63. 62％. CONCLUSIONS: The cancer pain and chronic pain information management platform can manage the outpatients' profile effectively and improve the rationality of the prescription. Meanwhile, the pharmacists have played an important role in the pain treatment for outpatients.

Improvement Effects of Automatization on Standardized Management of Inpatient Pharmacy / 中国药房

OBJECTIVE: To facilitate automatization in pharmacy of inpatient departments and promote the management level and quality of pharmaceutical service.METHODS: The transformation of operation mode and administration mode were observed after developing automatization in the inpatient pharmacy departments.RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS: The intelligent location storage and auto single-dose dispenser were combined with electronic information transmission technology to facilitate the automatization of inpatient pharmacy.The dispensing process of inpatient pharmacy is optimized and improved and standardized management of drugs is consummated.The efficiency and accuracy of the dispensing of tablets and injections are improved.Error rates of drug dispensary and costs of storage are cut down.Labor intensity and the number of staff are also reduced and the quality of pharmaceutical service in the inpatient pharmacy departments is upgraded roundly.

Comparison of Dissolution of Carvedilol Tablets from Four Pharmaceutical Factories / 中国药房

OBJECTIVE: To compare the in vitro dissolution of carvedilol tablets from four different pharmaceutical factories for references of clinical application of carvedilol tablets. METHODS: The dissolution test was carried out with basket-rotating method. The content of carvedilol was determined by UV spectrophotometry. The accumulative dissolution percentage was calculated. The Weibull’s equation was used to fit the dissolution parameters including T50,Td,T80,and m. Then an ANOVA was performed on these parameters. RESULTS: The dissolution of carvedilol from four manufactories conformed to the requirements of Chinese Pharmacopoeia(2005 edition). But significant differences were found among carvedilol preparations from different factories in dissolution parameters including m,T50,Td and T80(P