ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Hospital-based ABC analysis of pharmacotherapy in kidney and liver transplantation
1 Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2 Yaroslavl State Medical University, Yaroslavl, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Daria S. Fokina
Minin and Pozharsky Sq., 10/1, Nizhny Novgorod, 603005, Russia; ur.liam@4anikofsd
Author contribution: Fokina DS — study concept and design, source analysis, writing a text; Zhukova OV — study concept and design, text editing; Khokhlov AL — text editing.
Liver and kidney transplantation is the most effective and frequently the only radical method of treatment of patients with end-stage chronic kidney/liver diseases. Expenditure on transplantation is rather high. A number of patients with a reduced function of kidneys or liver is increasing rapidly. Thus, the problem is pressing and interdisciplinary. It has serious social and economic consequences for the Russian Federation. In this respect, analysis of the structure of use of medicinal preparations (MPs) enables to rationalize their application in clinical practice. This allows to carry out targeted measures to improve costly drug-induced therapy. Having analyzed prescriptions, it has been found out that MPs related to 52 pharmacotherapeutic groups were used in pharmacotherapy during kidney and liver transplantation within the analyzed period. ABC analysis revealed preparations included into group A, a group of immunosuppressants with the largest costs.
Keywords: liver transplantation, kidney transplantation, chronic kidney disease, liver failure, ABC analysis, cost structure