Abstract: Objective To investigate the factors influencing adverse drug reaction monitoring work in Beijing hospitals. Methods Questionnaires including relative factors in recent three years were distributed to 106 Beijing hospitals. The differences of adverse drug reaction report number per ten thousand outpatients, adverse drug reaction report number per 100 sickbeds and adverse drug reaction report number per ten thousand discharged patients were compared among different types of hospitals. The major influence factors were disclosed. Results and Conclusion Different government departments should cooperate to increase the awareness of hospitals on adverse drug reaction monitoring by various measures, for example, the adverse drug reaction monitoring duty was put into performance appraisal on these institutions. The people in charge of the work should strengthen the communication with the hospital leader, keep the adverse drug reaction monitoring administrator team stable, and enhance the construction of safeguard measures.

Key words: adverse drug reaction, influence factor, survey