A comparative study of pharmaceutical service before and since the ongoing health reform in community health institutions of China / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Understanding current situation of pharmaceutical service before and since the ongoing health reform in community health institutions of China,and providing practical evidences to the government.Methods Adopting some indicators to comparative study the pharmaceutical care in 2008 and 201 1 in community health service institutions of China.Results From 2008 to 201 1, pharmaceutical service quality in general has greatly improved in community health institutions of China. For example,average number of drugs per prescription descended from 2.5 1 to 2.23.Percentage of prescriptions with an antibiotic descended from 43.98 to 32.08.Percentage of prescriptions with a hormone descended from 7.13 to 4.67.Percentage of prescriptions with two or more antibiotics descended from 1 1.24 to 7.31.These four indicators before and since the reform have statistical significance (P values are0.003,0.001,0.003,0.004 respectively).But there are still inadequaciesfrom 2008 to 201 1,the average prescription cost descended from 59.63 to 5 1.18 yuan.Percentage of prescriptions with an IV drip descended from 34.84 to 30.41.These two indicators have not statistical significance(P values are 0.182,0.236 ).Conclusion To improve the quality of pharmaceutical service in community health institutions,the government should increase financial input to the community health institutions.