OBJECTIVE: To develop a method for simultaneous determination of carbamazepine, venlafaxine, rosiglitazone and nifedipine in human plasma. METHODS: UPLC-MS/MS method was adopted to determine plasma sample after precipitated with methanol (containing 0.1% formic acid) using pioglitazone hydrochloride as internal standard. The determination was performed on Waters ACQUITY UPLC HSS C18 column with mobile phase consisted of aqueous solution containing 0.01% formic acid-methanol containing 0.01% formic acid (gradient elution) at the flow rate of 0.3 mL/min. The column temperature was 50 ℃, and sample size was 5 μL. ESI was used for positive ion scanning by multi reaction monitoring mode. The ion pairs for quantitative analysis were m/z 237.00 to 194.05 (carbamazepine), m/z 278.20 to 58.10 (venlafaxine), m/z 358.08 to 135.04 (rosiglitazone), m/z 347.15 to 315.17 (nifedipine), m/z 357.09 to 134.06 (internal standard). RESULTS: The liner ranges of carbamazepine, venlafaxine hydrochloride, rosiglitazone hydrochloride and nifedipine were 2.00-2 000.00 (r=0.995 9,n=5), 2.12-2 120.00(r=0.990 5, n=5), 2.00-2 000.00(r=0.991 5, n=5) and 2.04-1 020.00(r=0.991 0,n=5) ng/mL; the minimum detection limits were 0.200, 0.106, 0.100, 1.020 ng/mL, respectively. RSDs of inter-day and intra-day were less than 15%. The absolute values of RE were less than 15%. The extraction recoveries were 65.66%-96.36%(RSD%<15%,n=5), and matrix effects ranged 80.99%-114.33%. The plasma concentrations of carbamazepine in 2 epileptic patients were (1 500.41±169.11), (1 159.01±59.24) ng/mL(RSD were 11.27%, 5.60%,n=3). The plasma concentrations of nifedipine in 2 hypertensive patients were (14.68±1.92),(21.18±3.59)ng/mL(RSD were 16.98%, 13.10%,n=3). CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple, specific, sensitive, accurate and suitable for the monitoring of plasma concentration and pharmacodynamic study of above drugs.