Automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) represent a critical innovation in modern healthcare, revolutionizing medication management by improving efficiency, accuracy, and security. With the increasing reliance on these technologies, optimizing their per...
Ensuring accurate prescriptions and proper medication administration is critical for patient safety and effective clinical outcomes. Identifying and preventing prescription errors can significantly reduce healthcare costs and adverse health effects. ...
Medication errors in the operating room (OR) are common and have considerable potential for harm. While not yet widely used in the OR, clinical decision support (CDS) has been shown to prevent medication errors outside of the OR and has the potential...
OBJECTIVES: Our hospital pharmaceutical department acquired an automated drug dispensive system to secure the medication management, from the dispensation to the administration process. The aim of our study was to secure the new circuit by identifyin...
This article addresses medication-related problems (MRPs) in hospitals, which continue to cause substantial preventable harm. Medication errors (ME), adverse drug reactions, and adverse drug events remain prevalent, significantly impacting patient sa...
BACKGROUND: Dispensing errors significantly contribute to adverse drug events, resulting in substantial health care costs and patient harm. Automated pill verification technologies have been developed to aid pharmacists with medication dispensing. Ho...
A medication error is an inadvertent failure in the drug therapy process that can cause serious harm to patients by increasing morbidity and mortality and are associated with significant economic costs to the healthcare system. Medication reconciliat...
Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
May 6, 2024
BACKGROUND: Reporting and analysis of adverse events (AE) is associated with improved health system learning, quality outcomes, and patient safety. Manual text analysis is time-consuming, costly, and prone to human errors. We aimed to demonstrate the...
Errors in pharmacy medication directions, such as incorrect instructions for dosage or frequency, can increase patient safety risk substantially by raising the chances of adverse drug events. This study explores how integrating domain knowledge with ...
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) and/or algorithms on drug management in primary care settings comparing AI and/or algorithms with standard clinical practice. Second, we evaluated what is ...
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