ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:To improve the management of automatic medicine packaging machine(ATC),so as to improve drug dispensing management. METHODS:The short-plate effect of“cask theory”was used to analyze the deficiency of ATC in soft-ware,hardware and management;pertinent improvement was conducted and its effects were evaluated. RESULTS & CONCLU-SIONS:Considering the deficiency of ATC software function,automatic form export function had been set up additionally,involv-ing form of adding and dismounting drug information,form of repeated medical order. Some improvement were carried out for fre-quent machine halt in hardware,such as adjusting the height of drug box and using spare drug groove;some carried out for incon-sistency between the accounts and drugs due to management defects,such as fixing post,improving adding drug information input. Compared with before improvement,daily times of machine halt during packaging had cut from 13.8 times to 2.3 times(decreased by 83.3%);daily total time of machine halt had shortened from 97.4 minutes to 9.6 minutes(shortened by 90.14%);the rate of packaging had increased from 14.3 packages/min to 23.33 packages/min(increased by 62.9%);the management of drug stock be-came more standard. The application of“cask theory”in the improvement of ATC can promote the quality of drug dispensing man-agement.
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:To shorten time consuming for dispensing mode of automatic medicine packaging machine(ATC), and improve the efficiency of ATC. METHODS:In the inpatient pharmacy of our hospital,previous dispensing mode that two ATC matched with one tablet case separately was replaced by new mode,i.e. one ATC(another ATC was on standby)matched with two tablet cases(one of them added medicine beforehand),and the information of drug-position coordinate was equipped. The time con-sumed,average daily number of packages,financial expenses and labor costs were recorded and analyzed to evaluated the effect of new mode. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:Compared with previous mode,new dispensing mode improve the efficiency of ATC greatly. In previous mode,two ATCs and four pharmacists work simultaneously and spend 4.5 hours for 3 850 bags of medicine, which cost 4 400 000 yuan;in new mode,only one ATC and three pharmacists work simultaneously,and spend 3.0 hours for 4 015 bags of medicine,which cost 2 350 000 yuan. Therefore,double-universal tablet cases greatly improves the efficiency of ATC and reduce the financial expenses as machine maintenance and labor cost.