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Effect of bar-code technology on the incidence of medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events in a hospital pharmacy.

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Poon, EG; Cina, JL; Churchill, WW; Mitton, P; McCrea, ML; Featherstone, E; Keohane, CA; Rothschild, JM; Bates, DW; Gandhi, TK
Published in: AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
January 2005

We performed a direct observation prepost study to evaluate the impact of barcode technology on medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events in the pharmacy of a tertiary-academic medical center. We found that barcode technology significantly reduced the rate of target dispensing errors leaving the pharmacy by 85%, from 0.37% to 0.06%. The rate of potential adverse drug events (ADEs) due to dispensing errors was also significantly reduced by 63%, from 0.19%to 0.069%. In a 735-bed hospital where 6 million doses of medications are dispensed per year, this technology is expected to prevent about 13,000 dispensing errors and 6,000 potential ADEs per year.

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AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

EISSN

1942-597X

Publication Date

January 2005

Start / End Page

1085

Related Subject Headings

  • Pharmacy Service, Hospital
  • Medication Systems, Hospital
  • Medication Errors
  • Humans
  • Electronic Data Processing
  • Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
  • Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems
 

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Poon, E. G., Cina, J. L., Churchill, W. W., Mitton, P., McCrea, M. L., Featherstone, E., … Gandhi, T. K. (2005). Effect of bar-code technology on the incidence of medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events in a hospital pharmacy. AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 1085.
Poon, Eric G., Jennifer L. Cina, William W. Churchill, Patricia Mitton, Michelle L. McCrea, Erica Featherstone, Carol A. Keohane, Jeffrey M. Rothschild, David W. Bates, and Tejal K. Gandhi. “Effect of bar-code technology on the incidence of medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events in a hospital pharmacy.AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, January 2005, 1085.
Poon EG, Cina JL, Churchill WW, Mitton P, McCrea ML, Featherstone E, et al. Effect of bar-code technology on the incidence of medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events in a hospital pharmacy. AMIA . Annual Symposium proceedings AMIA Symposium. 2005 Jan;1085.
Poon, Eric G., et al. “Effect of bar-code technology on the incidence of medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events in a hospital pharmacy.AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, Jan. 2005, p. 1085.
Poon EG, Cina JL, Churchill WW, Mitton P, McCrea ML, Featherstone E, Keohane CA, Rothschild JM, Bates DW, Gandhi TK. Effect of bar-code technology on the incidence of medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events in a hospital pharmacy. AMIA . Annual Symposium proceedings AMIA Symposium. 2005 Jan;1085.

Published In

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

EISSN

1942-597X

Publication Date

January 2005

Start / End Page

1085

Related Subject Headings

  • Pharmacy Service, Hospital
  • Medication Systems, Hospital
  • Medication Errors
  • Humans
  • Electronic Data Processing
  • Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
  • Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems