Robotic dispensing improves patient safety, inventory management, and staff satisfaction in an outpatient hospital pharmacy. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Robotic dispensing improves patient safety, inventory management, and staff satisfaction in an outpatient hospital pharmacy. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Study
 
• Published August 2018

Robotic dispensing improves patient safety, inventory management, and staff satisfaction in an outpatient hospital pharmacy.

Rodriguez-Gonzalez CG, Herranz-Alonso A, Escudero-Vilaplana V, Ais-Larisgoitia MA, Iglesias-Peinado I, Sanjurjo-Saez M. J Eval Clin Pract. 2018 Aug 22; [Epub ahead of print].

Pharmacy robots are now commonly used in hospitals for dispensing medications. Conducted at a Spanish hospital, this study found that use of pharmacy robots reduced medication dispensing errors and improved staff efficiency. The role of a pharmacy robot in a serious medication error is explored in a book that examined the effects of technological change on the health care system.

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