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Best Practices for Healthcare Systems

Five Rights of Medication Safety

Five Rights of Medication Safety can prevent medical errors and adverse healthcare events

  • The Right Patient gets the
  • Right Medication
  • At the Right Time
  • in the Right Dose
  • by the Right Route

 

How to Incorporate 5 Patient Care Rights? 

Successful implementations always start with a system review. This includes:

  • Appropriate redesign of organization processes and backing them up by IT technology.
  • Identifying everyone involved in the process: patients, doctors, nurses, and other caregivers
  • Identifying all objects in the environment: medications, samples, reports, lab results, medical instruments

 

What Are The Consequences Of Improving Healthcare Systems?

Hospitals and other organizations that have redesigned their processes and now use bar codes or RFID tags in their environment:

  • Noticed a dramatic – 70 percent decrease of medication errors.
  • Consequentially, hospitals, insurance companies and funds also save a lot of money, as each error costs 3.500€ on average

In organizations that have incorporated the latest technology to prevent these errors, they are very well aware of the root of the problem and the benefits of the solution:

''Healthcare workers don't come to work hoping to make a mistake, but systems can defeat good intentions," said Dr. Walter H. ''Sunny" Dzik, codirector of the blood transfusion service at Massachusetts General Hospital

''In the grocery store, we have . . . electronic devices to make sure when they charge me for orange juice, I'm not getting a bottle of milk. But we don't have in the hospital an analogous protective mechanism to save human life," said Dr. S. Gerald Sandler, director of transfusion medicine at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Source: Article in The Boston Globe  

Different Areas In Healthcare Where Automatic Identification Can Be Used

 

 

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