Practice of the First Time Online Bidding for Drug Purchase in a Large-scale Hospital in Anhui Province:Investigation and Analysis / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the implementation and the outcome of the first time online bidding for drug purchase so as to provide reference of further standardizing the online bidding for drug purchase.METHODS:The data of the first time online bidding for drug purchase of a large grade three class A comprehensive hospital were subjected to a retrospective statistical analysis with the use of Shanghai Jinshida Weining THIS4.0 system and Excel software.RESULTS:86.06% of the drug varieties in this hospital underwent online bidding for drug purchase.The mean drug cost,per capita drug cost of outpatients and inpatients were reduced by 6.95%,10.61%,and 1.10%,respectively.CONCLUSION:The online bidding for drug purchase contributes to the standardization of hospital drug purchase behavior and relieving of the problem of "high cost in medication".However,which is far from perfect and thus remains to be improved further.