title: [Exploring real world: analysis about Shenmai injection data extracted from hospital information system database in clinical practice].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the clinical application of Shenmai injection and to learn the rule of it in the real word so that we can provide inferences to doctors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cases using Shenmai injection in hospital information system from 10 grade A hospitals in Beijing were collected. Descriptive statistic methods were used to analyze the usage, dosage and medication time.
  
  
  RESULTS
  For the clinical application of Shenmai injection, the average age of the patients using Shenmai injection was about 64.68, but most of them came from cardiovascular diseases department Shenmai injection was usually used to treat coronary disease in Western medicine and Xiongbi (Chinese medicine syndrome name) in traditional Chinese medicine. The course of treatment was from one day to seven days, which was in accord with the drug instruction as well as the dosage.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Shenmai injection was usually used for the old people. In clinical practice, the use of Shenmai injection was basically in accord with the drug instruction by doctors. However, there are still some of the doctors who did not follow the instruction and should be careful of this.
authors.affiliation: School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. stella87924@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Danhui
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Yanming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004338:Drug Combinations; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D004338:Drug Combinations; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; C009252:fructus schizandrae, radix ginseng, radix ophiopogonis drug combination