The effect of the information construction of traditional Chinese medicine in the personalized account of traditional Chinese medicine for cancer patients

Objective: We aimed to explore the effect of the informationization of traditional Chinese medicine by analyzing cancer patients' personalized accounts of traditional Chinese medicine. Methods: The patients' average waiting times, the error rates, the average times spent taking medicine, the incidence of medicine-related disputes, and the patients' medication accounts between the traditional method group (the control group, n=218) and the informationization medication account group (the observation group, n=232, in which all the information about the patients was obtained from the patients' dispensing entries) were analyzed and compared. Results: Compared with the traditional methods, the informationization medication account system reduces patients' average waiting times and average drug-taking times. And at the same time, the satisfaction with the medication account in the informational medication account system was significantly higher in the observation group than it was in the traditional method group (all P<0.001). In contrast, the error rate and the incidences of disputes regarding the medicine dispensing were significantly lower than they were with the traditional methods (all P<0.05). Conclusion: The informationization of traditional Chinese medicine improves the speed of dispensing medicine, reduces the waiting time, and decreases the medicine dispensing error rate for tumor patients, and improves the patients' satisfaction with their medication accounts at the same time, so it can be recommended for clinical application.