1. BEGIN 9,16 to search multi-industry databases.

2. Select the type of product using PN= for product name. Note that two forms of the product name are used, one for each database.

3. Use keywords to focus the search.

SYSTEM:OS  - DIALOG OneSearch
  File   9:Business & Industry(R) Jul/1994-2006/Aug 23
         (c) 2006  The Gale Group
  File  16:Gale Group PROMT(R) 1990-2006/Aug 23
         (c) 2006 The Gale Group
 
      Set  Items  Description
      ---  -----  -----------
?SELECT PN=DRUGS & PHARMACEUTICALS OR PN=DRUGS AND PHARMACEUTICALS
           85546  PN=DRUGS & PHARMACEUTICALS
            8424  PN=DRUGS
          451365  PHARMACEUTICALS
      S1   87952  PN=DRUGS & PHARMACEUTICALS OR PN=DRUGS AND
                  PHARMACEUTICALS

?SELECT TOP OR LEADING
         1437781  TOP
         1872257  LEADING
      S2 2956867  TOP OR LEADING

?SELECT RANKING?
      S3  140130  RANKING?

?S S4/2006
             435  S4
          735258  PY=2006
      S5       7  S4/2006

5. TYPE the titles using Format 6.

6. TYPE the complete record to see the listing of top drugs used by hospitals.

Note the % change column from 2004.

Note: A portion of this record is omitted from this display.

?T S5/9/1
 
  5/9/1     (Item 1 from file: 16)  
DIALOG(R)File  16:Gale Group PROMT(R)
(c) 2006 The Gale Group. All rts. reserv.
 
13393974    Supplier Number: 149768401  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT)
 Top 200 drugs used in hospitals in 2005.(Statistical table)  
Drug Topics, v150, n12, pHSE12
June 19, 2006
ISSN:  ISSN: 0012-6616
Language:  English    Record Type:  Fulltext
Article Type: Statistical table
Document Type: Magazine/Journal; Trade
Word Count:   271
TEXT:
  TOP   200 DRUGS USED IN HOSPITALS IN 2005
      
     These are the  top   200 brand and generic drugs by wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) dollars used in hospitals last year. The data were provided by Wolters Kluwer Health,
Pharmaceutical Audit Suite, January to December 2005.
      
                                                      % change
                                                     from last
     Rank     Product            WAC dollars ($)          year
      
     1        Aranesp            2,968,334,221.76         52.54
     2        Procrit            2,961,200,436.75          3.01
     3        Zocor              2,761,817,837.53         15.31
     4        Epogen             2,355,013,185.78         -2.79
     5        Neulasta           2,281,123,142.87         32.29
     6        Remicade           2,141,418,312.04         14.90
     7        Rituxan            1,690,122,949.61         23.74
     8        Lipitor            1,478,050,003.73          8.14
     9        Lupron Depot       1,447,635,249.03          0.21
     10       Lovenox            1,382,821,374.82         15.04
     11       Nexium             1,267,500,431.79         10.82
     12       Prevacid           1,028,678,205.06          1.05
     13       Eloxatin           1,021,327,312.09         32.15
     14       Prevnar            1,012,965,036.25         31.14
     15       Taxotere             982,279,754.08          5.63
. . . .
     190      Fentanyl             104,683,751.78          0.00
     191      Paroxetine HCl       103,539,076.01        -19.18
     192      PEG-Intron
              Redipen               99,984,951.73        115.06
     193      Vancomycin HCl        99,644,921.69         30.28
     194      Temodar               98,093,777.91          9.04
     195      Diltiazem HCl         96,413,137.07         27.84
     196      Zithromax I.V.        95,612,221.26         27.12
     197      Nasonex               94,978,957.75         22.18
     198      Fentanyl              94,657,143.10          0.00
     199      Xeloda                94,276,916.09         35.40
     200      Epivir                94,255,410.83        -24.31
      
     Source: Wolters Kluwer Health, Source Pharmaceutical Audit Suite, January-December 2005. Dollars reflect wholesale acquisition cost (WAC).
    COPYRIGHT 2006 Advanstar Communications, Inc.
    COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale Group
PUBLISHER NAME: Advanstar Communications, Inc.
DESCRIPTORS:  *Drugs--Market share; Drugs-- Rankings; Pharmaceutical industry--Industry sales and revenue; Pharmaceutical industry--Statistics
EVENT NAMES:  *604  (Market share); 650  (Sales & consumption); 680  (Labor Distribution by Employer)
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES:  *1USA  (United States)
PRODUCT NAMES:  *2830000   ( Drugs & Pharmaceuticals)  ; 2834000
    (Pharmaceutical Preparations); 2834190   (Metabolic Agents); 2834199 (Metabolic Agents NEC)
INDUSTRY NAMES:  BUSN  (Business); DRUG  (Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries)
SIC CODES:  2830  (Drugs); 2834  (Pharmaceutical preparations)
NAICS CODES:  3254  (Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing); 325412  (Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing)