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| Status of the disposition of the family expired drugs and corresponding solutions Take Tianjin city as an example |
| Hits 1845 Download times 1724 Received:January 14, 2013 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2013.02.15 |
| Key Words
expired drugs;disposal;recovery;family |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | QIN Yong | Tianjin University of TCM,, Tianjin 300073, China
Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China | | | LI Dong-jin | Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China | djli1280@163.con | | ZHANG Fu-lan | Tianjin University of TCM,, Tianjin 300073, China | | | YU Jie | BaoKang Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | |
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| [Objective] To understand the current situation of family expired drug treatment in China, find out problems and put forward corresponding solutions.[Methods] By using random sampling, we had conducted a household survey of 1 350 households with self-made questionnaires in Tianjin. [Results] 90.7% of the families stock drugs; 3% of the families never pay attention to the expiration problems of reserve medicine; 83.4% of the homes throw the expired drugs directly away; 7.1% of the homes sell the expired drugs to second-hand drug-dealers. The disposition of family expired drug was in grim situation in China. [Conclusion] There are effective ways to solve the problem of improper disposition of expired medicine by strengthening hospital and pharmacy management, implementing strictly the related laws and regulations, establishing a reasonable compensation mechanism and introducing drug recovery and relevant regulatory experience from developed countries. |
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