The impact of China's retail drug price control policy on hospital expenditures: a case study in two Shandong hospitals

This is a retrospective pre/post-reform case study in two public hospitals. Financial records were reviewed to analyze changes in drug expenditures for all patients. A tracer condition, cerebral infarction, was selected for in-depth examination of changes in prices, utilization, expenditures and rationality of drugs. In the two hospitals, a total of 104 and 109 cerebral infarction cases, hospitalized respectively before and after the reform, were selected. Prescribed daily dose (PDD) was used for measuring drug utilization, and the contribution of price and utilization to changes in drug expenditures were decomposed. Rationality of drug use post-reform was reviewed based on published literature.

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Meng Q, Cheng G, Silver L, Sun X, Rehnberg C, Tomson G. The impact of China;s retail drug price control policy on hospital expenditures: a case study in two Shandong hospitals. Health Policy and Planning. 2005;20(3):185-96. doi:10.1093/heapol/czi018