Drug information for every outpatient was made for clinical use. Referring to about 900 prescription drugs, the name, effect, precautions for use, and contraindications for concomitant use for each drug were stated within 250 characters on both pages of a sheet of paper measuring 5.0cm×10.5cm in size.
After starting this system the number of requests for supply of the drug information was about 6200 per month on the average, 49% of the total prescription number. This is a system that can be taken up by every hospital, as this system it does not require either any special instruments, special pharmacists or any prolonged waiting time for the patients to receive their drugs. Questionnairing to the patients showed the informating to be sufficiently understandable, thus improving the patients' knowledge of the drugs. Furthermore, 45% of the patients answered that they began to take drugs in a proper way thanks to the additional information. This drug information system was thus found to successsfully improve the QOL of the patient.
