Sufficient drug informations should be provided to patients who place themselves under medical care regarding the proper use of drugs. Various reports have been published regarding what kind of drug information should be provided to outpatients. In our hospital, we meet these requirements by distributing of notebooks on the patients' medication history and medication cards. We have developed a system to prepare medication cards for a clinical consultation of inpatients using the database for outpatients, in order to efficiently individualize the medication cards according to each patients' disease. The accumulation and reproduction of individualized medication cards allows us to efficiently inform and educate inpatients about proper drug usage.
