The impact of China's national essential medicine system on improving rational drug use in primary health care facilities: An empirical study in four provinces

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Song, Yan ^a   Bian, Ying ^a   Petzold, Max ^b   Li, Lingui ^c   Yin, Aitian ^d  

^a University of Macau   (Macao)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Essential medicines policy; Prescribing behavior; Primary health care; Rational drug use

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL DRUG;

CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHINA; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUGS, ESSENTIAL; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84988664710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0507-3     Document Type: Article

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