作者: Elizabeth Allan Flynn , Kenneth N. Barker , Brian J. Carnahan
DOI: 10.1331/108658003321480731
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摘要: Objectives To measure dispensing accuracy rates in 50 pharmacies located 6 cities across the United States and describe nature frequency of errors detected. Design Cross-sectional descriptive study. Settings Chain, independent, health-system (located hospitals or managed care organizations). Participants Pharmacy staff at randomly selected each city who accepted an invitation to participate. Intervention Observation by a pharmacist pharmacy for 1 day, with goal inspecting 100 prescriptions (defined as any deviation from prescriber's order). Main Outcome Measure Dispensing on new refill prescriptions. Results Data were collected between July 2000 April 2001. The overall rate was 98.3% (77 among 4,481 prescriptions; range, 87.2%-100.0%; 95.0% confidence interval, + 0.4%). Accuracy did not differ significantly type city. Of 77 identified errors, 5 (6.5%) judged be clinically important. Conclusion are problem national level, about 4 per day filling 250 daily. An estimated 51.5 million occur during 3 billion year.