Browsing by Subject "medication safety"

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    Barcode Medication Administration System (BCMA) Errors – A Systematic Review
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Mitra, Rupa
    Implementation of Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) improves the accuracy of administration of medication. These systems can improve medication safety by ensuring that correct medication is being administered to the correct patient in correct doses and at the correct time. It becomes easy to generate online patient medication records. However there are some challenges which have been noticed with these systems. The purpose of my project is to do a systematic review of these challenges and try to identify the common issues that that has been identified by the various researches done. Also as part of this project, I am going to participate in a live project with the same objective being undertaken by IU Health North Hospital (IUHNH). This live project will give a first-hand knowledge and understanding of the problem, as well as help me understand what happens in the “real world” of medication administration. My goal would be to identify if BCMA systems can ensure safe medication administration and if not, what other safety requirements need to be put in place to ensure this safety. Such requirements can be other technology implementation, training of staff using the BCMA system or a wider issue in the medication administration process itself.
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    Virtual Coaching Delivered by Pharmacists to Prevent COVID-19 Transmission
    (SAGE Journals, 2021-07-10) Abdel-Qader, Derar H.; Al Meslamani, Ahmad Z.; Al Mazrouei, Nadia; El-Shara, Asma A.; El Sharu, Husam; Merghani Ali, Eman; Mohammed Ebaed, Samah Bahy; Mohamed Ibrahim, Osama; Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science
    Background: While the role of pharmacists in the current pandemic control has been recognized worldwide, their coaching efforts to improve public’s behaviors that could prevent COVID-19 transmission has been rarely investigated. Objectives: To assess whether pharmacist-based virtual health coaching sessions could increase the proportion of people who practised healthy social behaviors, to test whether this model can increase the public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, and to measure whether these behaviors could actually prevent contracting COVID-19. Method: In this randomized controlled trial, adults who matched specific criteria were randomly allocated into 2 arms. The active arm received 12 pharmacist-based virtual coaching sessions delivered via Zoom® over a month. Participants allocated to the control arm received no coaching. At the end of the last coaching session, both groups were asked to complete a structured questionnaire for outcome assessment. Participants in the active group were followed up to 2 weeks after the end of the last coaching session to check if they contracted COVID-19 or not. The SPSS software version 26.0 (IBM Corp., Chicago, IL) was used for statistical analysis. Results: Of the 300 participants who gave consent for participation, 295 completed the study (147 from the active arm and 148 from the control arm). The proportion of those using face masks, avoiding crowds, and willing to be isolated if infected in the active arm was increased from 51.70%, 53.74%, and 59.86% at baseline to 91.83%, 80.27%, and 96.59% at the end of coaching, respectively (all with P < .05). In addition, the proportion of behaviors, such as disinfecting surfaces, not touching the T-zone, and avoid sharing personal belongings with colleagues at work was increased from 36.05%, 27.89%, and 46.93% at baseline to 63.94%, 52.38%, and 87.75% at the end of coaching, respectively (all with P < .05). Avoid touching the T-zone (OR = 0.43; 95% CI, 0.24-0.89) and using disposable tissues (OR = 0.30; 95% CI, 0.18-0.77), each versus using face masks appropriately were more likely to get COVID-19. Conclusion: Pharmacist-based virtual health coaching could be a potential strategy to increase the proportion of behaviors that could curtail the spread of COVID-19.