Documenting drug-related problems with personal digital assistants in a multisite health system
| Autor: | Peter J Jewesson, Gwen Liu, Robert M. Balen, Peter Loewen, Sumit Raybardhan, Nilufar Partovi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Pharmacology
Service (systems architecture) Databases Factual Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions Attitude of Health Personnel business.industry Health Policy Data field Pharmacist Documentation medicine.disease Pharmaceutical care Workflow Nursing Computers Handheld Health care Synchronization (computer science) medicine Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems Humans Medical emergency Pharmacy Service Hospital business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 62:1782-1787 |
| ISSN: | 1535-2900 1079-2082 |
| DOI: | 10.2146/ajhp040438 |
| Popis: | Purpose. A scalable, multiuser, personal digital assistant (PDA)-based documentation tool for pharmacist collection of data on drug-related problems (DRPs) is described. Summary. A PDA-based tool for documenting DRPs and pharmacist interventions was developed with database software. Data fields were based on the pharmaceutical care model. PDA synchronization stations were configured to transmit encrypted data from three hospital sites to a central server. Pharmacists in a multisite health care organization were trained to use the documentation tool. Data were analyzed with commercially available software. Users’ opinions about the tool were solicited in a survey. Twenty-eight PDAs containing a 15-field database were issued to 39 pharmacists in 31 service areas. Data were successfully transmitted from all hospital sites over the existing corporate local area network. During a two-month period, 5084 DRPs were documented; 90% of them were resolved at the time of data entry. The most frequent types of DRPs were the need to add a drug (31%) and the ordering of an unnecessary drug (15%). Most pharmacists reported that the tool was easy to use, was well integrated with the workflow, and required less than 30 minutes per day for documenting DRPs. Conclusion. A PDA-based documentation tool was successfully used in a multisite health care organization to collect data on DRPs and document pharmacist interventions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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