Becker M D, Johnson M H, Longe R L
Am J Hosp Pharm. 1978 Apr;35(4):432-4.
The accuracy of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in checking unit dose carts was compared. One-half of the unit dose patient medication drawers, for a 92-bed medicine service in a 450-bed teaching hospital, were checked by pharmacy technicians and the remaining by pharmacists. These drawers then were checked again to determine the number and type of checking errors committed by technicians and pharmacists. During the 10-day study, carts checked by pharmacists contained over twice as many errors (1.85%) as similar carts checked by technicians (0.87%). The results suggest that pharmacy technicians could probably be trained to perform the cart-checking task in unit dose drug distribution systems. Time-extended studies should be done to determine if technician performance is maintained after the novelty of the task wears off.
对药剂师和药房技术员检查单剂量推车的准确性进行了比较。在一家拥有450张床位的教学医院中，为一个92张床位的内科服务部门配备的单剂量患者用药抽屉，一半由药房技术员检查，其余由药剂师检查。然后再次检查这些抽屉，以确定技术员和药剂师所犯检查错误的数量和类型。在为期10天的研究中，药剂师检查的推车中的错误率（1.85%）是技术员检查的类似推车（0.87%）的两倍多。结果表明，药房技术员可能可以接受培训，以执行单剂量药物分发系统中的推车检查任务。应进行长期研究，以确定在任务新鲜感消失后，技术员的表现是否能保持。
