Pharmacists play a critical role in ensuring patient safety in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This article describes results from the 2021 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists national survey regarding inpatient pharmacy practice. Findings suggest that more pharmacists have prescribing authority and are increasingly recognized for their role in personalized drug therapy, but nearly three-quarters of respondents reported concerns about pharmacy staffing shortages.

This article describes results from the 2019 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists national survey regarding inpatient pharmacy practice. The authors note the increasing responsibilities placed on pharmacists and their role in addressing the opioid crisis, adopting intravenous workflow technologies, and leveraging clinical decision support tools to improve medication administration safety.

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Advances in technologies for the medication use system have enabled pharmacists to participate in safety improvement. This review summarizes technology-enabled changes in medicine use systems and how this has affected the role of pharmacists in inpatient environments.

Pharmacists are crucial champions of medication safety in hospitals. This national survey assessed changes in hospital pharmacist work. With enhanced health information technology tools, pharmacists are increasingly engaged in medication order review, antimicrobial stewardship, and opioid safety projects.

This survey of hospital pharmacy directors sheds light on current medication safety practices. The results demonstrate that electronic health records and computerized prescriber order entry have been adopted in most hospitals. They also found expansion of the pharmacist role in improving safety in inpatient and outpatient care.

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Hospitals' use of electronic medical records and computerized provider order entry (CPOE) continues to increase relatively slowly. However, this annual survey of more than 1400 hospitals by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists found that uptake of medication safety technology has quickened. Half of responding hospitals reported using barcode medication administration, and more than two-thirds use electronic medication administration records and smart infusion pumps. In contrast, a much smaller proportion of hospitals reported using CPOE. These findings indicate that hospitals overall are incorporating new technologies proven to reduce the risk of medication errors.

Conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), this survey of more than 1300 pharmacy directors sought to evaluate the use of safety measures targeting medication dispensing and administration errors. Some positive signs were found in that use of proven technologies such as bar coding and smart infusion pumps has increased, but the overall proportion of hospitals using these technologies remains relatively low. Only a small proportion of hospitals had pharmacists attached to the emergency department (ED) or reviewed medication orders in the ED for errors. Prior surveys by the ASHP have examined the use of safety mechanisms for preventing prescribing and transcribing errors.

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The authors conducted focus groups to assess nurses' experiences with using smart pumps and the ways in which they overcame challenges associated with this technology.

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