Login / Signup

Time spent by hospital personnel on drug changes: A time and motion study from an in-and outpatient hospital setting.

Joo Hanne PoulsenLotte Stig NørgaardPeter DieckmannMarianne Hald Clemmensen
Published in: PloS one (2021)
Clinical hospital personnel spent significantly longer time on drug change situations in the dispensing of medicine to in- and outpatients in a hospitals. This study emphasizes that implementing drug changes do require extra time, thus, the hospital management should encounter this and ensure that additional time is available for the hospital personnel to ensure a safe drug dispensing process.
Keyphrases
  • adverse drug
  • healthcare
  • acute care
  • emergency department
  • drug induced
  • mass spectrometry
  • quality improvement
  • high resolution