Intravenous smart pump drug library compliance: a descriptive study of 44 hospitals.

Giuliano KK, Su WT, Degnan DD, Fitzgerald K, Zink RJ, DeLaurentis P. J Patient Saf. 2018;14:e76-e82.

Although smart pumps can reduce medication errors, user overrides and workarounds prevent safety features from operating as intended. Researchers used informatics data from 7 hospital systems including a total of 44 hospitals for a 1-year period to determine compliance with built-in dose-error reduction systems and drug libraries. They found differences in compliance both within and across systems. They also found a positive association between pump compliance and type of pump used as well as a positive association between the number of drug library profiles and pump compliance.

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