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Wheres my med? Improving patient-specific medication storage . . . Objectives: To describe a quality improvement project designed to decrease the amount of time it takes nursing staff to obtain patient-specific medications for patients boarding in the ED at a community hospital
Emergency Department Boarding’s Impact on Patient Care and . . . ED boarding is associated with delayed and missed care, medication errors, delirium, higher morbidity and in-hospital mortality, and longer hospital length of stay as well as poor patient satisfaction
Improving Inpatient Medication Dispensing with an Automated . . . This quality improvement project aims to: 1) decrease – the time from ordering medication to administration, including delay incidents, by > 70%; and 2) decrease the inpatient monthly total medication consumption by > 20% and ward medication stock items by > 70%, including decreasing returned items and loss from in-house expired medications by >
Reducing Medication Errors by Adopting Automatic Dispensing . . . Medication errors can have severe consequences and threaten patient safety The patient safety-related benefits of automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) have been reported by several previous studies, including a reduction in medication errors in intensive care units (ICUs) and emergency departments
Automated Dispensing Cabinets Can Help or Hinder Patient . . . Designate emergency medications, rescue agents, and antidotes as permanent stock in the ADC system to avoid accidental elimination from inventory Activate ADC software that prevents clinically inappropriate medications from being loaded into specific cabinets without prior approval
An automated dispensing system for improving medication . . . Numerous medical conditions require timely medication administration in the emergency department (ED) Automated dispensing systems (ADSs) store premixed common doses at the point-of-care to minimize time to administration, but the use of such