ABSTRACT Objective:To evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and practices ( KAP ) of essential medicine system by physicians and pharmacists from county public hospitals, analyze the influence factors, and put forward some suggestions. Methods: A random stratified sampling method was used to take the questionnaire survey of the physicians and pharmacists from 33 county public hospitals in Zhejiang, regarding the basic medicine system of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP). Content includes cognition, attitude towards the basic drug system, related behavior and influence factors when executing essential drug system, as well as the exist problems and countermeasures during the process of implementing. Results:290 valid questionnaires were collected with valid answering rate 90.6%. The score was (3.48±0.96) for the overall cognition of national essential drug system, among which different professional title and post, rank of the hospitals showed a significant difference (P<0.05). And it was (16.8±2.49) scores of the general attitude for the implementation. The highest score was reducing the medical burden on patients, and the lowest score was the satisfaction of implementation effect. The better system execution was the publicity and training approved by 75.9% of the respondents. 47.9% of the respondents thought that the drug list equipped could not satisfy clinical requirements, 86.6% thought that the purchase difficulty for some of the emergency medicines and the regular medications existed in implementation process, and 59.0% thought that the initiative of the physicians were not high and what we should do was to provide the supported systems and improve the quality of medicines. Conclusion:The cognition of the basic drug system by the physicians and pharmacists was in the middle level, which was lower in the satisfaction of implementation. The problems about the implementation had yet to be perfect. The government departments and hospitals should strengthen the implementation of policy, perfect motivation mechanisms and restrictive mechanisms, promote the active use of essential drugs in the county public hospitals. |