Practice and Experience of Decreasing Drug Proportion by a Series of Measures of Circuit Breaker on the Key Monitoring Drugs

OBJECTIVE To study the effective mode of reducing the drug proportion by a series of measures of circuit breaker in the drug management. METHODS Effectiveness of a series of administrative and technical measures were evaluated by analyzing the changes of the drug proportion in the authors' hospital from 2013 to 2017. RESULTS After taking the series of the measures, the drug proportion in the hospital dropped significantly. By the end of 2017, the drug proportion had dropped from 37.19% in 2015 to 27.82%, which reached the expected goal of controling drug proportion. CONCLUSION The series of measures, including circuit breaker in the drug management, effectively reduced the drug proportion and the patients' drug costs in the hospital, which greatly promoted the levels of hospital management.