• Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Chengdu 610041, China;
LI Youping, Email: yzmylab@hotmail.com
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Objective  To establish standards, methods and processes for evidence-based evaluation and selection of essential medicine that meet the needs of the 8 pilot township health centers in China.
Methods  A descriptive analysis was conducted to compare the similarities/differences and the advantages/disadvantages of the standards, methods and processes between the World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines evaluation and selection, and the GRADE evidence quality and recommend intensity. In combination with the former outcomes of this series of study, the standards, methods and processes of evidence-based evaluation and selection of essential medicines in the domestic pilot township health centers were optimized, restructured and improved. Softwares such as GRADEprofiler were used to assess the quality of evidence.
Results  a) Localized standards, methods and processes for evidence-based evaluation and selection of essential medicine were established, and the evaluation tool was ascertained; and b) Disease and drug names, guidelines and searching processes for evaluation and selection of essential medicine were developed with standardized, systematic and transparent approaches.
Conclusion  a) Standards, methods and processes for searching, evaluating and recommending the best evidence are preliminarily established, through comparative analysis on the effectiveness, safety, cost-effectiveness and applicability of the candidate medicines for diagnosing, treating and preventing diseases in township health centers in China; b) Following the principle of “utilizing the best existing evidences and developing the urgently-needed but lacking evidence”, a good exploration was done for the localization, standardization and transparency of the standards, methods and processes of evidence-based evaluation and selection of essential medicine for pilot township health centers.

Citation: LI Honghao,LI Youping,WANG Li,YANG Xiaoyan. Evidence-Based Evaluation and Selection of Essential Medicine for Pilot Township Health Centers Located in Eastern, Central and Western China, Part II: Study on Evaluation Standards, Methods and Processes. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2012, 12(3): 347-356. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20120056 Copy

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