2003 年 29 巻 4 号 p. 470-475
Yokohama City University Medical Center was renovated in January 2000 and a total ordering system was established. To improve the dispensing work for injections, an automatic ampoule dispensing system, which picks up injections automatically according to an individual prescription, was introduced. We investigated the effectiveness of the automatic ampoule dispensing system regarding the progress of pharmaceutical services in medical wards.
We improved the automatic ampoule dispensing system twice after its initial deployment. The number of prescriptions for injections, inpatients, the time required for prescription printing, the time required for dispensing, the number of dispensing errors found and inquiries regarding the prescriptions were counted for 12 months.
After the first improvement, the dispensing time required was shortened by 25% by changing the manner of transmission of the prescription data. The printing time was shortened by 45% by employing a high-speed printer. The number of inquiries regarding prescriptions increased by eightfold with the saving of the time required for the dispensing itself.
The introduction of the automatic ampoule dispensing system was thus found to be useful in order to save time related to dispensing work and thereby improving the quality of pharmaceutical services for inpatients.
