Thomas J A, Martin V, Frank S
Pharmacy Services, Deaconess Hospital, Inc., Evansville, Indiana, USA.
Healthc Financ Manage. 2000 Dec;54(12):58-61.
Anesthesia services can account for a significant portion of a healthcare organization's costs. Deaconess Hospital of Evansville, Indiana, used a collaborative, multidisciplinary effort to implement process improvements that yielded significant cost savings while improving patient care. Shifting responsibility for drug distribution from the operating room (OR) nurses to a pharmacist, the hospital established a satellite pharmacy service for the OR. As a result, the hospital was able to improve control of drug distribution and record-keeping, reduce turnaround time for medication preparation, lower its medication charge error rate, and increase the percentage of surgeries that start on time. The success of the OR satellite pharmacy led the hospital to expand satellite pharmacy services to labor and delivery, the cardiac cath laboratory, and the intensive care units.
麻醉服务可能占医疗保健机构成本的很大一部分。印第安纳州埃文斯维尔的迪肯尼斯医院通过跨学科协作努力实施流程改进，在改善患者护理的同时实现了显著的成本节约。该医院将药品分发的职责从手术室护士转移给药剂师，为手术室设立了卫星药房服务。结果，医院能够加强药品分发和记录管理，缩短药品准备周转时间，降低药品收费错误率，并提高按时开始手术的比例。手术室卫星药房的成功促使医院将卫星药房服务扩展到产科、心脏导管实验室和重症监护病房。
