Robotic dispensing improves patient safety, inventory management, and staff satisfaction in an outpatient hospital pharmacy.

Carmen Guadalupe Rodriguez-Gonzalez; Ana Herranz-Alonso; Vicente Escudero-Vilaplana; Maria Aranzazu Ais-Larisgoitia; Irene Iglesias-Peinado; Maria Sanjurjo-Saez

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Robotic dispensing improves patient safety, inventory management, and staff satisfaction in an outpatient hospital pharmacy.

September 12, 2018

Rodriguez-Gonzalez CG, Herranz-Alonso A, Escudero-Vilaplana V, et al. J Eval Clin Pract. 2019;25(1):28-35.

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Pharmacy robots are now commonly used in hospitals for dispensing medications. Conducted at a Spanish hospital, this study found that use of pharmacy robots reduced medication dispensing errors and improved staff efficiency. The role of a pharmacy robot in a serious medication error is explored in a book that examined the effects of technological change on the health care system.

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