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Medication Safety: Just a Label Away
Author(s) -
Jennings Jane,
Foster Jan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/j.aorn.2007.04.003
Subject(s) - medicine , patient safety , medical emergency , drug labeling , drug , pharmacology , health care , economics , economic growth
IN PERIOPERATIVE SETTINGS, medications are removed from manufacturers' identifying containers; therefore, scrub personnel should label medications placed on the sterile field. COMPLIANCE WITH MEDICATION labeling practices with the use of both blank and preprinted labels was tested in the OR at a Houston, Texas, hospital. SCRUB PERSONNEL WERE more likely to label medications and medication‐delivery devices when preprinted medication labels were provided. DATA OBTAINED FROM this project influenced the hospital's management team to supply preprinted labels for all procedures to improve safety for surgical patients.