title: [Clinical outcomes research on data analysis from hospital information system about Kudiezi injection].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the reality of clinical use for Kudiezi injection based on analyzing hospital information system from 18 hospitals in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive statistic methods were used in the analysis of 24 225 cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients using Kuediezi injection were mainly between 46 years old to 65 years old and there was a gender balance. Kuediezi injection was used most in neurology department and department of cardiology to treat coronary heart diseases and cerebral infarction. Patients who had Chinese medicine diagnosis were most about "Xiongbi"with syndrome qi-yin deficiency, and also more patients with syndrome qi-yin stagnation were treated by Kudiezi injection. The dosage of using Kudiezi was between 10 to 40 mL and treating course was between 1 to 3 days, with 0.9% sodium chloride.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although most of the patients received a right treatment of Kudiezi injection in clinical practice, there is still using Kudiezi injection for some diseases not on its drug instruction. We must remind those doctors who should be careful of using Kudiezi injection treating other diseases not on the instruction. This is just a retrospective and descriptive study, so prospective studies need to be developed in future to validate the results from this study.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Research in Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China. okfrom2008@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Xian-Bin
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Yan-Ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Hu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.forename: Yan-Peng
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004358:Drug Therapy; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal