From a Suspect Victim to the Holmes: The Unexpected Value of a Home-Made Mobile Chemotherapy Medication Administration System

• Published in: Studies in health technology and informatics Vol. 225; p. 840
• Main Authors: Kuo, Ming-Chuan, Chang, Polun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 2016
• Subjects: Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems - instrumentation; Drug Dosage Calculations; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - nursing; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - prevention & control; Home Infusion Therapy - instrumentation; Home Infusion Therapy - methods; Home Infusion Therapy - nursing; Medication Errors - prevention & control; Medication Systems, Hospital - organization & administration; Nursing Staff, Hospital - organization & administration; Taiwan; Telemedicine - instrumentation; Telemedicine - methods
• ISSN: 0926-9630
• DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-840

Nurse used to be the first one to be investigated in a drug adverse event. Our newly hospital-wide implemented home-made mobile chemotherapy medication support system, which has released our nurses from the traditional heavy 2-nurse-double-checking loading, was unexpectedly used to protect our nurses from being suspected in a recent event of over delivery of infusion. The outcome turned us to reexamine the device maintenance and test protocols.