Risks and medication errors analysis to evaluate the impact of a chemotherapy compounding workflow management system on cancer patients' safety.

MBelén Marzal-Alfaro; Carmen Guadalupe Rodriguez-Gonzalez; Vicente Escudero-Vilaplana; José Luis Revuelta-Herrero; Eva González-Haba; Sara Ibáñez-Garcia; Irene Iglesias-Peinado; Ana Herranz-Alonso; Maria Sanjurjo Saez

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Risks and medication errors analysis to evaluate the impact of a chemotherapy compounding workflow management system on cancer patients' safety.

February 26, 2020

Marzal-Alfaro MB, Rodriguez-Gonzalez CG, Escudero-Vilaplana V, et al. Health Informatics J. 2020;26(3):1995-2010.

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This study applied failure mode, effect, and criticality analysis (FMECA) methodology to identify the impact of an image-based workflow software on reducing chemotherapy errors. After software implementation, the overall medication error rate decreased significantly, as did all types of errors except wrong medicinal product errors.

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