Construction and optimization of automatic checking mode for unit dose dispensing system of oral drugs / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To provide a reference for establishing an automatic checking mode and improving the checking efficiency of the unit dose dispensing system of oral drugs in hospital. METHODS The automatic checking process reengineering team was established in our hospital. ECRSI method was adopted to sort out the verification process and mode of drug bags for the unit dose formula of our hospital through five principles of eliminating， combining， rearranging， simplifying and increasing， and the hardware series problem and the problem of excessive system false-positive proportion were optimized. The drug bags for the unit dose formula were randomly selected from 10 wards， the efficiency and external error rates of manual check and automatic checking mode before and after optimization were compared， and the false-positive reporting failure in automatic checking mode was also compared before and after optimization. RESULTS After the establishment of the automatic checking mode of the unit dose formula for oral drugs， the average checking time of drug bags was significantly shorter than that of manual checking mode in the other 8 wards except for cardiovascular and renal departments （P＜0.05）. After the optimization of the automatic checking mode， the average checking time of drug bags in all wards was significantly shorter than that in manual checking mode （P＜0.05）. Compared with before optimization of the automatic checking mode， the average checking time of drug bags was shortened by 0.43 s， and the average checking time of drug bags in half of the wards was shortened significantly （P＜0.05）. At the same time， the false-positive proportion decreased from 96.83% before optimization to 92.76% after optimization （P＜0.05）. The external error rate dropped from 0.039‰ in manual checking mode to 0.019‰ before optimization and 0.015‰ after optimization （P＜0.05）. CONCLUSIONS Based on ECRSI method， the automatic checking mode for the unit dose dispensing system of oral drugs can effectively reduce the average checking time of drug bags， reduce external error and improve the work efficiency of pharmacists.