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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 +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 +3 more
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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 +7 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 +2 more
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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 +5 more
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MEDICATION ERRORS AND DRUG-DISPENSING SYSTEMS IN A HOSPITAL PHARMACY [PDF]
Clinics, 2005 Pharmacies permeate and interconnect various actions developed in different sectors within the complex process of the use of drugs in a hospital. Dispensing failures mean that a breach has occurred in one of the last safety links in the use of drugs.
Anacleto, Tânia Azevedo +3 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 +1 more
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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 +7 more
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Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2018 Background: Traditional implementations of electronic medication management (EMM) systems have involved two common formats – a ‘big bang’ approach on the day of go-live, or a phased ward-by-ward approach over months.
Naren Gunja +4 more
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Effect of Patient Safety Program for Nurses on Medication Administration [PDF]
Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing, 2022 Background: Patients' safety is the main concern of all health-care systems around the world; one of international patient safety goal is medication administration safety aim: determine the effect of patient safety training program for nurses on ...
Israa Abu Hussein +2 more
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