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

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medicines used at Danish public hospitals are purchased through tendering. Together with drug shortage, tendering result in drug changes, known to compromise patient safety, increase medicine errors and to be resource demanding for healthcare personnel. Details on actual resources required in the clinic setting to manage drug changes are unknown. The aim of the study is to explore time spend by hospital personnel in a drug change situation when dispensing medicine to in- and outpatients in a hospital setting in the Capital Region of Denmark.

Method

A time and motion study, using direct observation combined with time-registration tools, such as eye-tracking, video recording and manual time tracking. Data were obtained from observing nurses and social and health c

SUBMITTER: Poulsen JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7906352 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature