Open AccessVulnerabilities for Drug Diversion in the Handling, Data Entry, and Verification Tasks of 2 Inpatient Hospital Pharmacies: Clinical Observations and Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
Author(s) -
Maaike de Vries,
Mark Fan,
Dorothy Tscheng,
Michael A. Hamilton,
Patricia Trbovich
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of patient safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1549-8425
pISSN - 1549-8417
DOI - 10.1097/pts.0000000000000744
Subject(s) - pharmacy , health care , medicine , medical emergency , clinical pharmacy , failure mode and effects analysis , identification (biology) , patient safety , emergency medicine , family medicine , engineering , botany , biology , reliability engineering , economics , economic growth
Inpatient hospital pharmacies have a central role in managing controlled substances (CS) throughout the hospital medication use process (MUP). Our objectives were to identify vulnerabilities for diversion in the MUPs of 2 inpatient pharmacies, explore differences between the sites, and characterize the types of vulnerabilities identified.