Analysis of Antibiotics Used by Medical Insured Inpatients with Lung Infection / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the use of antibiotics in medical insured inpatients with lung infection for reference of management of expenditure of antibiotics in the inpatients.METHODS: The data base documents of a total of 685 insured inpatients with lung infection(Jan.2004～Jun.2006) were collected for a statistical analysis in respect of the utilization and expenditure of antibitoics using defined daily dose and the ratio of order of consumption sum to that of DDDs as indexes.RESULTS: Cephalosporins and quinolones took the lead in expenditure and DDDs,accounting for 70.70% of total antibiotics in terms of consumption sum.CONCLUSION: The main factors affecting hospitalization expense were the application of cephalosporins and quinolones,thus emphasis should be paid to the supervising of these factors.