CHINA PH ARMACY Volume 33，Number 7，April 15，2022 Semimonthly Table of Contents Drug selection guideline for medical institutions / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

In order to promote the standardization of drug selection in medical institutions ，enhance the level of pharmaceutical affairs management of medical institutions and promote the safe ，effective，economical and appropriate use of drugs in the treatment of diseases ，the Drug Selection Guideline for Medical Institutions （hereinafter refer to as the Guideline ）is formulated. The development of the Guideline for medical institutions is following the latest definition of Institution of Medicine （IOM）， National Academy of Sciences and based on the methodology of WHO handbook for guideline development. During the construction of the Guideline ，the research points of the Guideline are constructed on the basis of Delphi method ；a drug selection and evaluation system with 10 primary indicators and 30 secondary indicators as the core is also designed. The evaluation indexes can be divided into research indexes and policy indexes according to their attributes and main sources of evidence. The GRADE method is used to evaluate the quality of the evidence system for research indexes ，while the policy indexes are graded according to the Legislation Law of the People ’s Republic of China . On this basis ，the evaluation methods of those indexes are constructed by using evidence-based medicine method ，the recommendation is formed through expert consensus method ，and finally a standard guideline for drug selection in medical institutions is formed.