title: Automated medication dispensing systems.
abstract: Threefold pressures to control hospital costs, improve professional staff performance and maximize medical quality motivate health systems managers to continually reassess the potential role of automated medication dispensing systems. Nurse managers become intimately involved in this assessment and reassessment process and must understand both the varied performance variables and the total health system implementation challenges presented by each of the available systems.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Tallon
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D017046:Cost Savings; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory