Hospital dispensing. On auto pilot.
An automated dispensing system installed in an acute hospital has halved dispensing errors and released more than 30 per cent of technicians' time for other duties. Reducing medication errors can have a considerable effect on reducing pressure on hospital beds. Automation has considerable advantages in light of the continuing shortage of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
Farrar
Keith
K
Wirral Hospital Trust.
Slee
Ann
A
Yeats
Michael
M
D001331:Automation; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom