From the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Baltimore, Maryland.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
J Patient Saf. 2022 Sep 1;18(6):526-530. doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000001052. Epub 2022 Jul 7.
Medication errors are the most common type of error in hospitals and reflect a leading cause of avoidable harm to patients. Bar code medication administration (BCMA) systems are a technology designed to help intercept medication errors at the point of medication administration. This article describes the process of developing, testing, and refining a standard for BCMA adoption and use in U.S. hospitals, as measured through the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. Building on the published literature and an expert panel's collective experience in studying, implementing, and using BCMA systems, the expert panel recommended a standard with 4 key domains. Leapfrog's BCMA standard provides hospitals with a "how-to guide" on what best practice looks like for using BCMA to ensure safe medication administration at the bedside.
用药错误是医院中最常见的错误类型，反映了导致患者可避免伤害的主要原因。条形码用药管理（BCMA）系统是一种旨在帮助在用药管理点拦截用药错误的技术。本文描述了通过 Leapfrog 医院调查来衡量的美国医院采用和使用 BCMA 系统的标准制定、测试和完善过程。基于发表的文献以及专家小组在研究、实施和使用 BCMA 系统方面的集体经验，专家小组建议采用具有 4 个关键领域的标准。Leapfrog 的 BCMA 标准为医院提供了一个“操作指南”，说明如何使用 BCMA 来确保床边安全用药。
