Impact of Bar-code Medication Administration on Medication A...

BANE, VICTORIA RN; SIBILA, KATHERINE BSN, RN; PICCIN, RITA BS, ND, RN; GOLLA, SHERRY BSN, RN; DANI, BANERS, ANNA MARY MSN, BSN, RN; GODA, Karen BA, ND, RN- , FALGUNI MSN, BSN, RN; ZELL, KATRINA MA, MS

Mistakes in drug treatment at hospitals are common and often result in patient injury, which increases hospital costs and length of stay. Drug management with barcodes can improve patient safety by using technology to improve the accuracy of the entire drug management process. The aim of this study was to determine whether the implementation of the barcode drug management process could improve the safety of drug management. Researchers used the posterior comparison design to explain the nurse's workflow during drug management before and after the pilot barcode drug management process was implemented. Implementation of the proposed barcode drug management will increase the real-time drug management document, reduce drug management related errors, increase the use of workstation for bedside wheels for drug management, and for recovery Increase the use of drug electronic medication management records. Descriptive statistics are used to summarize the data and to evaluate differences in distribution between pre-implementation and post-implementation phases. The usage of the bedside wheel workstation and the real-time documentation have increased dramatically. After the implementation, the use of electronic medicine management records to search medicines did not increase. After the introduction of barcode medication, drug treatment error showed a slight acceleration

Author's organization: Department of Nursing Information (Mss Bowers, Goda, Bene, Sibila, Piccin, Golla, Dani) and OH, Cleveland Clinic (Zell), Ohio

The authors disclose that there is no significant or economic benefit to any operating company related to this article.

Corresponding author: Anna Maria Bowers, MSN, BSN, RN, 13820 Dr. Stony Creek, North Royalton, OH 44133 (annamaryb@yahoo.com)

Serious medication errors are common in hospitals and often occur during postings or medication management of orders. In order to help prevent such errors, techniques have been developed for validating chemicals by incorporating barcode verification technology into the electronic chemical management system (barcode eMAR). We conducted research before and after the experiment at the academic medical center which carries out bar code eMAR. We evaluated error rate of transcription and drug management of units before and after the introduction of barcode eMAR. Errors including early or late medication are classified as timing errors and all other errors are classified as out of bounds errors. Two clinicians reviewed these errors and decided the possibility of classifying harmful drug events that could be harmful and likely to be harmful to the patient

Mistakes in drug treatment at hospitals are common and often result in patient injury, which increases hospital costs and length of stay. Drug management with barcodes can improve patient safety by using technology to improve the accuracy of the entire drug management process. The aim of this study was to determine whether the implementation of the barcode drug management process could improve the safety of drug management. Researchers used the posterior comparison design to explain the nurse's workflow during drug management before and after the pilot barcode drug management process was implemented. Descriptive statistics are used to summarize the data and to evaluate differences in distribution between pre-implementation and post-implementation phases. The use of the bedside wheel workstation and real time file has increased dramatically