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Development and Psychometric Validation of the Hospital Medication System Safety Assessment Questionnaire [PDF]

Nursing Reports
Background/Objectives: Medication incidents remain a significant concern in hospital settings. Integrated medication systems, regarding organized processes, policies, technologies and professional practices are designed to enhance patient safety; however,
Leila Sales, Ana Filipa Cardoso, Beatriz Araújo, Élvio Jesus   +3 more
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Automated dispensing cabinets and nurse-related medication errors in inpatient settings: A systematic review [PDF]

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
Background: Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs) are computerized medication storage and dispensing systems increasingly used in inpatient hospital settings to support safe medication administration.
Arab Elsadig Salih Osman, Nour Isleem, Dena Al-Thani, Aya Elsakka   +3 more
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Hospital medication errors in a pharmacovigilance system in Colombia [PDF]

Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2015
Objective: this study analyzes the medication errors reported to a pharmacovigilance system by 26 hospitals for patients in the healthcare system of Colombia.
Jorge Enrique Machado-Alba, Paula Andrea Moreno-Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos Moncada Escobar   +2 more
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Integrating medical images into hospital information systems [PDF]

Journal of Digital Imaging, 1991
The effective delivery of health care has become increasingly dependent on a wide range of medical data that includes a variety of images. Manual and computer-based medical records ordinarily do not contain image data, leaving the physician to deal with a fragmented patient record widely scattered throughout the hospital.
R E, Dayhoff, D L, Maloney, P M, Kuzmak, B M, Shepard   +3 more
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Observational study on medication administration errors at a University Hospital in Brazil: incidence, nature and associated factors

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2022
Background Medication administration errors are frequent and cause significant harm globally. However, only a few data are available on their prevalence, nature, and severity in developing countries, particularly in Brazil.
Lindemberg Assunção-Costa, Ivellise Costa de Sousa, Renata Kelly Rodrigues Silva, Ana Carla do Vale, Charleston Ribeiro Pinto, Juliana Ferreira Fernandes Machado, Cleidenete Gomes Valli, Luis Eugenio Portela Fernandes de Souza   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of the automated drug dispensing system: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020
Objectives: to compare the effectiveness of the decentralized automated drug dispensing system with pockets. Methods: an effectiveness study based on a systematic review guided by the question: for patients admitted to hospital units, is the use of ...
Márglory Fraga de Carvalho, Juliana Mendes Marques, Cristiano Bertolossi Marta, Antônio Augusto de Freitas Peregrino, Vivian Schutz, Roberto Carlos Lyra da Silva   +5 more
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RFID Medication Management System in Hospitals

International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE), 2020
One of the primary concerns of the World Health Organization is the improvement of medical care by reducing adverse events in the medication process and enhancing the safety of patients. These issues are mainly related to the management of expensive and high-risk medicines in hospitals. In this paper, we enhanced medication management by minimizing the
Safae El Abkari, Abdelilah Jilbab, Jamal El Mhamdi   +2 more
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ABC of Medical Computing: HOSPITAL BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS [PDF]

BMJ, 1995
A computer's usefulness is greatly enhanced if it is connected to others in a network, as this allows information and resources to be shared by all. A network can be anything from a simple link between two computers in an office to a complex installation joining thousands of computers at many sites around the world. In a hospital two types of networks
N, Lee, A, Millman
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One-Stop Dispensing: Hospital Costs and Patient Perspectives on Self-Management of Medication

Pharmacy, 2018
(1) Objective: To assess hospital medication costs and staff time between One-Stop Dispensing (OSD) and the Traditional Medication System (TMS), and to evaluate patient perspectives on OSD.
Morten Baltzer Houlind, Helle Bach Ølgaard McNulty, Charlotte Treldal, Signe Lindgaard Andersen, Thomas Huneck Haupt, Janne Petersen, Ove Andersen, Lene Juel Kjeldsen   +7 more
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The pharmacist facing the logistics of safely dispensing, storing and preserving drugs in healthcare units [PDF]

Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2020
In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the Hospital Pharmacy Services have quickly adapted to respond to a critical situation characterized by the constant and continuous admission of patients with severe pneumonia who needed treatment, requiring a ...
Maria Josep Cabañas, Maria Queralt Gorgas   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source