title: Safety and Traceability in Patient Healthcare through the Integration of RFID Technology for Intravenous Mixtures in the Prescription-Validation-Elaboration-Dispensation-Administration Circuit to Day Hospital Patients.
abstract: This work presents the integration of the RFID technology with the aim of ensuring the traceability of patients and minimization of adverse events during the process of prescription-validation-elaboration-dispensation-administration of medication by means of the implementation of various passive and active WIFI RFID systems in the Pharmacy and Day Hospital services of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña. Obtaining patient traceability and using the patient/drug binomial during this process allows us to minimize the occurrence of adverse events. The key points in this work are the unmistakably unique identification and accurate real time location of the controlled items (patients and medication). RFID technology has proved to be invaluable in assisting with the everyday clinical practice of a hospital, and has been successfully implemented in this environment and others. In services such as the day hospital, the implementation of said technology is further justified by the high costs of the service and the high risk to the patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Faculty of Computer Science, Campus Elvi&#241;a S/N, University of A Coru&#241;a, E-15071 A Coru&#241;a, Spain. maria.martinez@udc.es.
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martínez Pérez
authors.affiliation: A Coru&#241;a Universitary Hospital, Xubias de Arriba 84, E-15006 A Coru&#241;a, Spain. guillermo.vazquez.gonzalez@sergas.es.
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vázquez González
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Faculty of Computer Science, Campus Elvi&#241;a S/N, University of A Coru&#241;a, E-15071 A Coru&#241;a, Spain. dafonte@udc.es.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dafonte
mesh_terms: D061605:Administration, Intravenous; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000379:methods*; D061214:Patient Safety; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device / Q000379:methods*; D059015:Wireless Technology
keywords: RFID; adverse effects; safety; traceability