Assessing automated product selection success rates in transmissions between electronic prescribing and community pharmacy platforms.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Wrong drug product errors occurring in community pharmacies often originate at the transcription stage. Electronic prescribing and automated product selection are strategies to reduce product selection errors. However, it is unclear how often automated product selection succeeds in outpatient pharmacy platforms.

Materials and methods

The intake of over 800 e-prescriptions was observed at baseline and after intervention to assess the rate of automated product selection success. A dispensing accuracy audit was performed at baseline and postintervention to determine whether enhanced automated product selection would result in greater accuracy; data for both analyses were compared by 2x2 Chi square tests. In addition, an anonymous survey was sent to a convenience sampl

SUBMITTER: Panich J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810461 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature