Abstract：The national essential drugs list is an important tool and means of the institution of national essential drugs.Medical and health institutions use drugs on the basis of list. The list can be guiding the production and management activities of pharmaceutical industry. In order to analyze the current situation and characteristics of national essential drugs list, this paper makes a statistical analysis on the 2012 version of national essential drugs list from the angle of varieties, formulations and indications. During the analysis, we compared the 2012 version with the 2009 version of the national essential drugs list. This paper presents proposals from the subdirectory building, dynamic adjustment and differentiated management perspective.
2013, Vol. 11 
