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Automation of a tertiary hospital pharmacy drug dispensing system in a lower-middle-income country: A case study and preliminary results

2022; Elsevier BV; Volume: 6; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.rcsop.2022.100151

2667-2766

Ângela Maria Bagattini, José Luiz Alvim Borges, Rachel Riera, Débora Cecília Mantovani Faustino de Carvalho,

Public Health in Brazil

An increase in the use of automated systems has optimised the drug dispensing process in hospitals.This case study describes the implementation of automated drug dispensing system and presents the preliminary results of automated pharmaceutical dispensing with robots (PillPick® and BoxPicker®, ©Swisslog Healthcare) at Hospital Sírio-Libanês, a private tertiary hospital in Brazil.During the study period, between 2013 (pre-automation) and 2017 (post-automation) the number total of medication errors has not changed post-automation, but there was significant reduction in error in the dispensing phase with a relative risk of 0.84 (95% confidence interval: 0.70-0.99) withal a reduction in the numbers of returned items, breakages, and loss of medications, although that delivery times have increased..The study results suggest that the use of robotic systems in the central pharmacy may improve hospital pharmacy management and generate only a few errors in dispensing pharmaceuticals.