Main non-standardized medicines and the financial impact on their purchase in a teaching hospital in the northern ceará zone

Introduction: In the hospital, the pharmacy aims to ensure the safe and rational use of medicines that will be prescribed by the doctor through a planning in the purchase of medicines and hospital materials. Only the products included in the list of standardized drugs are purchased in a programmed manner by the hospital and are available for use. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive, observational, exploratory, retrospective study of a quantitative approach. Results: It was observed that in both years of our study that non-standardized drugs most consumed are not necessarily the highest financial values. Discussion: of the 1,590 prescriptions that arrived at the pharmacy of a teaching hospital in Rio Grande do Norte, 313 were related to non-standard medications. Of these, the same requests of our study were: anti-inflammatory (15.65%), neuroleptic (14.78%), antiepileptic (9.57%), antimycotic (6.96%). Conclusion: Among the purchase requests sent to the hospital pharmacy, it was possible to identify that in both years of our study, the most commonly used non-standardized medications are not necessarily the ones with the highest financial values. Taking Linezolina 600 mg in both 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 the highest value drug purchased.