Decreasing Medication Turnaround Time with Digital Scanning Technology in a Canadian Health Region
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Decreasing medication turnaround time with digital scanning technology in a canadian health region.
BACKGROUND Reducing medication turnaround time can improve efficiency, patient safety, and quality of care in the hospital setting. Digital scanning technology (DST) can be used to electronically transmit scanned prescriber orders to a pharmacy computer queue for verification and processing, which may help to improve medication turnaround time. OBJECTIVES To evaluate medication turnaround tim...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1920-2903,0008-4123
DOI: 10.4212/cjhp.v67i6.1402