What if you could improve your confidence in delivering medication safely?
From prescriptions to patient administration, the workflow for medication management can be complex with numerous processes and potential errors
- In an oncology setting, 29% of prescriptions written by hand contain at least one mistake.1
- 10.44% of compounded preparations contain errors with potential critical consequences.5
- 7% of infusions are compounded in error during the preparation stage.6
- Only 2% of administration errors are intercepted, making them the toughest to prevent.2-4
Free up time to care
Connected Medication Management combines a streamlined approach to reduce medication errors, increase traceability and free up nurses from documentation and excess admin, contributing to increased patient and staff safety from the point of prescription to administration.
Click Here to read about how Bolton NHS Foundation Trust improved productivity, enhanced patient safety and saved on their medication consumption by installing BD Pyxis™ ADCs.
BD Pyxis™: Daily hunt for medication
BD Pyxis™: Supporting the reduction of medication errors
BD Pyxis™: Optimising inventory management
Medication errors can affect not only the patient, but also the patient's family and the healthcare provider involved.
To learn how a medicine error affected Lisa's family, click the video.
Implementing Connected Medication Management in your hospital could lead to
- 53% less prescribing errors compared to paper-based prescribing, when using a prescribing workflow software solution, in an oncology and haematology setting.1
- 80% reduction in drug dispensing error rates in automated dispensing cabinets on wards.7
- Smart pump implementation has proven effective in intercepting high-risk drug programming errors. In a paediatric unit, 283 errors were intercepted over a 62-month observation period. High-risk drugs were involved in 58% of prevented errors.8
