The pharmaceutical care in the good pain management ward / 中国药学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of pharmaceutical care on establishing "the good pain management ward" in hospital, therefore, improving treatment level and elevating the management experience of cancer pain. METHODS: Retrospective analysis method was used to evaluate the effect of pharmaceutical care on establishing "the good pain management ward" through analyzing the DDDs of anticancer drugs, reasonable rate of prescriptions and changes of pharmaceutical care in a chemotherapy department of polyclinic from 2011 to 2015. RESULTS: In contrast the establishment of the good pain management ward before and after, there was a remarkable difference in the DDDs constituent ratio of the three-step analgesic ladder drugs (P<0.05). And usage rate of adjunctive drug was increased; moreover, reasonable rate of prescriptions was significantly improved (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Pharmaceutical care could effectively promote the reasonable and normative ability of cancer drug use and management in establishing "the good pain management ward".