2012 edition of national basic drug application guide officially published

On August 29, 2012 edition of the national basic drug clinical application guide and formulary was officially published It is reported that the national health and Family Planning Commission has previously issued a notice calling for giving full play to the positive role of the 2012 version of the guidelines and prescription sets in guiding drug procurement, standardizing diagnosis and treatment behavior, and improving the level of rational use of drugs, and stressing that the guidelines and prescription sets should be fully covered by grass-roots training by the end of this year According to the national basic drug catalog, the 2012 version of the guide and prescription set are divided into two parts: chemical drugs, biological products and Chinese patent medicines Among them, the chemical and biological products cover 254 diseases in 19 categories, and the special contents applicable to the clinical diagnosis and treatment of the elderly, women and children, and the rational use of drugs are added; the Chinese patent medicine covers 173 diseases (syndromes) of traditional Chinese medicine, corresponding to 177 diseases of western medicine, especially the use of appropriate dosage forms and specifications of children's drugs, traditional Chinese medicine injection and combination To guide the medical staff of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to use traditional Chinese medicine reasonably National essential drug catalogue, clinical application guide and prescription set are the basic technical documents necessary for the World Health Organization to promote the concept of essential drugs and ensure the fair, accessible, safe, effective and rational use of essential drugs They are also the important carriers for the implementation of essential drug system After the publication of the 2009 edition of the national catalogue of essential drugs (basic level part), relevant departments organized experts to prepare guidelines and formularies According to the relevant person in charge of the Department of medicine and politics of the national health and Family Planning Commission, over the past four years, the catalogue, guide and prescription set have played an active role in improving the procurement of essential drugs, carrying out clinical rational drug use training, standardizing the drug use behavior at the grass-roots level, reducing the burden of drug use on the masses, improving the service capacity at the grass-roots level, and promoting the promotion and use of traditional Chinese medicine, especially in filling the clinical application guide of essential drugs of traditional Chinese medicine A gap in the World Health Organization.