Sarah Berdot1,2,3, Abdelali Boussadi2,4, Aurélie Vilfaillot5,6, Mathieu Depoisson1, Claudine Guihaire7, Pierre Durieux2,4, Laetitia Minh Maï Le1,8, Brigitte Sabatier1,2. 1. Department of Pharmacy, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. 2. Equipe 22, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, UMR 1138 INSERM, Paris, France. 3. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, EA EA4123, Université Paris Sud, Châtenay-Malabry, France. 4. Département de Santé Publique et Informatique Médicale, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. 5. Unité de Recherche Clinique, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. 6. INSERM, Centre d'Investigation Clinique 1418 (CIC1418), Paris, France. 7. Hospital Nursing staff (DSAP), Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. 8. Lip(Sys)2, EA7357, UFR Pharmacie, U-Psud, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: A commercial barcode-assisted medication administration (BCMA) system was integrated to secure the medication process and particularly the dispensing stage by technicians and the administration stage with nurses. We aimed to assess the impact of this system on medication dispensing errors and barriers encountered during integration process. METHODS: We conducted a controlled randomized study in a teaching hospital, during dispensing process at the pharmacy department. Four wards were randomized in the experimental group and control group, with two wards using the system during 3 days with dedicated pharmacy technicians. The system was a closed loop system without information return to the computerized physician order entry system. The two dedicated technicians had a 1-week training session. Observations were performed by one observer among the four potential observers previously trained. The main outcomes assessed were dispensing error rates and the identification of barriers encountered to expose lessons learned from this study. RESULTS: There was no difference between the dispensing error rate of the control and experimental groups (7.9% for both, p = 0.927). We identified 10 barriers to pharmacy barcode-assisted system technology deployment. They concerned technical (problems with semantic interoperability interfaces, bad user interface, false errors generated, lack of barcodes), structural (poor integration with local information technology), work force (short staff training period, insufficient workforce), and strategic issues (system performance problems, insufficient budget). CONCLUSION: This study highlights the difficulties encountered in integrating a commercial system in current hospital information systems. Several issues need to be taken into consideration before the integration of a commercial barcode-assisted system in a teaching hospital. In our experience, interoperability of this system with the electronic health record is the key for the success of this process with an entire closed loop system from prescription to administration. BCMA system at the dispensing process remains essential to purchase securing medication administration process. Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
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OBJECTIVES: A commercial barcode-assisted medication administration (BCMA) system was integrated to secure the medication process and particularly the dispensing stage by technicians and the administration stage with nurses. We aimed to assess the impact of this system on medication dispensing errors and barriers encountered during integration process. METHODS: We conducted a controlled randomized study in a teaching hospital, during dispensing process at the pharmacy department. Four wards were randomized in the experimental group and control group, with two wards using the system during 3 days with dedicated pharmacy technicians. The system was a closed loop system without information return to the computerized physician order entry system. The two dedicated technicians had a 1-week training session. Observations were performed by one observer among the four potential observers previously trained. The main outcomes assessed were dispensing error rates and the identification of barriers encountered to expose lessons learned from this study. RESULTS: There was no difference between the dispensing error rate of the control and experimental groups (7.9% for both, p = 0.927). We identified 10 barriers to pharmacy barcode-assisted system technology deployment. They concerned technical (problems with semantic interoperability interfaces, bad user interface, false errors generated, lack of barcodes), structural (poor integration with local information technology), work force (short staff training period, insufficient workforce), and strategic issues (system performance problems, insufficient budget). CONCLUSION: This study highlights the difficulties encountered in integrating a commercial system in current hospital information systems. Several issues need to be taken into consideration before the integration of a commercial barcode-assisted system in a teaching hospital. In our experience, interoperability of this system with the electronic health record is the key for the success of this process with an entire closed loop system from prescription to administration. BCMA system at the dispensing process remains essential to purchase securing medication administration process. Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
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